Subject: Re: Changes to netstat -m (mbuf.c) reporting between 1.6 and 2.0 releases
To: David H.Gutteridge <dhgutteridge@sympatico.ca>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 11/03/2004 14:51:01
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On Nov 2, 2004, at 6:25 PM, David H.Gutteridge wrote:

> Looking at the source code for mbuf.c and the attached comments in 
> CVS, I can see that there's been a move to use sysctl which has 
> changed a lot of functionality.  Will the other information be added 
> back in at some point, or am I simply inexpertly using the system, and 
> there's somewhere else to get percent memory use, etc.?

Changes to the kernel mbuf memory management code have rendered many of 
that information meaningless, which is why it was removed.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>


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