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Date:      Fri, 13 Jul 2001 21:59:56 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>
To:        Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Network performance roadmap.
Message-ID:  <20010713215956.A20320@cicely20.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010713151257.A27664@ussenterprise.ufp.org>; from bicknell@ufp.org on Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:12:57PM -0400
References:  <20010713101107.B9559@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <3B4F4534.37D8FC3E@mindspring.com> <20010713151257.A27664@ussenterprise.ufp.org>

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On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:12:57PM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:00:04PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > One good way to prevent this is to not unreasonably set
> > your window size... 8-p.
> 
> Ah, I see, so to prevent MBUF exhaustion I should not let
> my socket buffers get large.  Sort of like to prevent serious
> injury in a car crash I should drive at 10MPH on the freeway.
> 
> Performance limits to save a system from crashing should be
> a last resort.

One point is that if a client gets serviced with more performance
the system can reuses the buffers much sooner.

-- 
B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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