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title: Summary of the Replication Protocol Buffer Monitor information
description: Reference for the attributes in the PingDirectory Replication Protocol Buffer monitor entry, which tracks the state of protocol operation buffers.
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# Summary of the Replication Protocol Buffer Monitor information

The following table provides a description of the attributes in the `cn=Replication Protocol Buffer` monitor entry.

The following is the distinguished name (DN) for the Replication Protocol Buffer Monitor entry. The monitors provide information on the state of the buffer for protocol operations, which is kept in the local storage.

```
dn: cn=Replication Protocol Buffer,cn=monitor
```

**Replication Protocol Buffer Monitor Information**

| Monitor Attribute        | Description                                                                                         |
| ------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `saved-buffers`          | Number of protocol buffers.

Initial buffer size is 4k.                                     |
| `reallocations`          | Number of times the buffers had to be reallocated because of insufficient size.                     |
| `large-buffer-creates`   | Number of times a buffer larger than 512k was requested.                                            |
| `large-buffer-evictions` | Number of times a buffer was removed from the thread local storage because it has grown above 512k. |