Hi, I have something that might be more interesting than any counter ... It seems to me as if the problem *only* manifests itself when an OpenBSD box is backing up to this FreeBSD 8.0-NFS-ZFS server. All other boxes are FreeBSD, and I have so far today been unable to reproduce the problem from any of those. As soon as I interrupted the backup running from OpenBSD, the mbuf cluster usage stabilized. How's that for a mystery in the morning? /Eirik On 29. nov. 2009, at 15.29, Robert Watson wrote: > On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Eirik Øverby wrote: > >> I just did that (-rxcsum -txcsum -tso), but the numbers still keep rising. I'll wait and see if it goes down again, then reboot with those values to see how it behaves. But right away it doesn't look too good .. > > It would be interesting to know if any of the counters in the output of netstat -s grow linearly with the allocation count in netstat -m. Often times leaks are associated with edge cases in the stack (typically because if they are in common cases the bug is detected really quickly!) -- usually error handling, where in some error case the unwinding fails to free an mbuf that it should free. These are notoriously hard to track down, unfortunately, but the stats output (especially where delta alloc is linear to delta stat) may inform the situation some more. > > Robert N M Watson > Computer Laboratory > University of CambridgeReceived on Mon Nov 30 2009 - 09:22:23 UTC
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