Re: Surprising `netstat -m' output

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:
> Hello.
> I'm seeing strange numbers from `netstat -m' on recent -CURRENT:
>
> $ cd /usr/src && cvs up -dP	(to pull the source from local pserver)
> $ netstat -m
> 258/2/13312 mbufs in use (current/peak/max):
>         258 mbufs allocated to data
> 4294966501/4294966501/6656 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max)
> 4192714 Kbytes allocated to network (242% of mb_map in use)
> 0 requests for memory denied
> 0 requests for memory delayed
> 0 calls to protocol drain routines
>
> I can reproduce this on kernels built today and on 16th. The numbers
> from `vmstat -m' don't look unusual, so maybe it's not really an mbuf
> leak?
>
> Regards.

	Not leak, but I think the netstat utility needs to be changed
	so that it works with the "new" type of mbuf stats returned
	from the kernel.

				Hiten Pandya