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Date:      Sun, 7 Jul 2002 19:22:13 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: the incredible shrinking socket
Message-ID:  <20020707192134.T15265-100000@patrocles.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020707195321.GN97638@elvis.mu.org>

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On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> Possibly, but the additional pointer dereference would be expensive
> and a lot of code would have to change without the compatibility
> macros.
>
> I sort of did it as a proof of concept, but of course since it doesn't
> completely work I haven't proved it. :)
>
>
> --
> -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]

Well, if it's not working I wouldn't worry too much about it.  A TIME_WAIT
cache or socket buffer autosizing would probably save a lot more memory.
:)

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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