Strange number of mbufs

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Feb 2 13:58:05 PST 2006


On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 12:52:09AM +0300, Artem Kuchin wrote:
> Running 5.4-CURRENT. Web server. About 150 virtual servers.
> 
> %netstat -m
> 
> 4294481198 mbufs in use
> 4294662679/25600 mbuf clusters in use (current/max)
> 0/694/6656 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max)
> 3463545 KBytes allocated to network
> 0 requests for sfbufs denied
> 0 requests for sfbufs delayed
> 1681997 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile
> 75325 calls to protocol drain routines
> 
> What does this mean? Do i really have  4294481198 mbufs in use?
> How is this possible? 

This is a FAQ, it's a leak in the stats on SMP.  Fixed in later
versions.

Kris
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