strange netstat -m output

[Oliver Fromme]

Stefan Krueger wrote:
 > $ netstat -m
 > 193/1/13312 mbufs in use (current/peak/max):

I wonder how the peak can be less than the current value.
Normally, it should be current <= peak <= max.

 > 193 mbufs allocated to data
 > 4292490067/4292490067/6656 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max)
 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Those numbers are definitely bogus.  An mbuf cluster is
about 2 Kbyte in size, so 4292490067 of them would require
about 8 Tbyte of memory.  I assume your machine doesn't
have that much memory.

 > 3434150 Kbytes allocated to network (220% of mb_map in use)

That's 3.3 Gbyte.  Also an impressive number.

 > could someone tell me why they're so high and if netstat -m's output is
 > correct

It's not correct.  Maybe there's an API problem -- Are you
sure that your userland is in sync with the kernel?

(I seem to remember that some things have been converted
from KVM to sysctl recently, but I think only vmstat was
affected, not netstat.  I'm not 100% sure, though.)

Best regards
   Oliver

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