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Re: mbuf cluster leak?



> Reason is that the mclpl pool is a "pool cache", things get allocated
> from the pool but only lazily freed to the pool (and to the VM system)
> when there is a memory shortage.
Ah, thanks for the explanation. But things should also be freed in case 
the pool cache runs full, no? What I observe is, that (in the trigegred-by-
something-unknown case that it massively grows) the mbuf cluster pool 
runs full up to the point where the machine's network becomes non-operational.


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