Subject: Re: increasing NMBCLUSTERS
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Roberto <roberto@redix.it>
List: tech-net
Date: 09/29/2005 17:43:23
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 02:16:12PM -0600, Herb Peyerl wrote:
>> [...]
>> 714 mbufs in use:
>>         146 mbufs allocated to data
>>         567 mbufs allocated to packet headers
>>         1 mbufs allocated to socket names and addresses
>> 25619 calls to protocol drain routines
>>
>> [...]
>> Memory resource pool statistics
>> Name        Size Requests Fail Releases Pgreq Pgrel Npage Hiwat Minpg
>> Maxpg Idle
>> mclpl       2048   183151 22639  117629 40643  7882 32761 32761     4
>> 32768    0
>

Are there any manpages that can give me the meaning of this field?

> Hum
> 183151 - 117629 = 65522, so this really makes 32761 pages.
> Looks like a leak somewhere, because it seems these clusters are not
> attached to mbufs (there isn't 65522 mbufs allocated).
>

Sorry but I do not understand what you figure out: why 65522 makes 32761
pages? and why seems to you not attached to mbufs?

Maybe they are silly question but...

Thanks,
Roberto