Strange number of mbufs

[Gleb Smirnoff]

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

This is fixed in 6.0-RELEASE. In 5.x the true values can be obtained
via 'vmstat -z'. 

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