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Message Buffers Group

The Message Buffers group lets you monitor how your system is using message buffers.

Class: mbufs

The Message Buffers group contains attributes for monitoring the following message buffer statistics:

• Number of message buffers (numMbufs)
• Number of logical pages or clusters obtained from the page pool (numClusters)
• Number of free clusters (freeClusters)
• Number of times requests for message buffers were denied or delayed (numDrops, numWait)
• Number of calls to protocol drain routes (numDrain)

The group also contains a Message Buffers Allocation table for tracking the allocations for each type of message buffer.

Class: mbufAllocEntry

Instance: value of mbufDesc attribute for the specific message buffer type.