Subject: Re: mbufs and FIN cache
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Matthew Mondor <mmondor@gobot.ca>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/08/2002 15:18:24
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 12:02:57PM -0800, Artem Belevich wrote:
> The mbufs you see are allocated by the network interface to receive
> incoming packets. If you bring interface down, your mbuf usage should
> drop to 0.

Ah thanks, it's true that I didn't try to unmount the interface then...
I noticed that generally useage drops to 0 even when it's still up,
but maybe it caches some data permanently at some point...

Matt