Hi all,

I noticed something which may or may not be of interest... normally if no
more network connections exist (and no waiting/lingering queue), netstat
-m returned 0 mbufs allocated, now I am getting this (on a 1.5.3 box with
14 days uptime). I even stopped all networking daemons (except AF_LOCAL
ones which don't seem to affect mbufs).

mmondor@gobot:~/src/work/mmsoftware$ netstat -m
25 mbufs in use:
        25 mbufs allocated to data
0/116 mapped pages in use
500 Kbytes allocated to network (1% in use)
0 requests for memory denied
0 requests for memory delayed
0 calls to protocol drain routines
mmondor@gobot:~/src/work/mmsoftware$

Is is normal for those 25 data mbufs to remain allocated indefinitely?


Another network-related question: netstat -ptcp (or -s) to display TCP
statistics has nothing related to FIN, is there any specific reason for
this? I assume that there is a cache similar to SYN cache when it waits
for FIN...

Thanks,
Matt