Re: squid, DNS and no buffer space

[email protected] (Stephen Borrill) writes:

>As the first line suggests, named is running on the host itself (and is 
>set to forward to another host on the same LAN). Both should be caching.

># netstat -m
>31927 mbufs in use:
>         19124 mbufs allocated to data
>         12800 mbufs allocated to packet headers
>         3 mbufs allocated to socket names and addresses
>32 calls to protocol drain routines

Does this go down when you stop squid (and possibly other network activity) ?

An MBUFTRACE kernel might show where the mbufs are used, but there
is lots of code that fails to implement it correctly.