From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 5 05:30:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA17189 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 05:30:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from caipfs.rutgers.edu (root@caipfs.rutgers.edu [128.6.155.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA17183 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 05:30:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from jenolan.caipgeneral (jenolan.rutgers.edu [128.6.111.5]) by caipfs.rutgers.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA27252; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 08:28:17 -0500 (EST) Received: by jenolan.caipgeneral (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA14097; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 08:28:06 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 08:28:06 -0500 Message-Id: <199703051328.IAA14097@jenolan.caipgeneral> From: "David S. Miller" To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au CC: mingo@pc5829.hil.siemens.at, wong@rogerswave.ca, alan@cymru.net, imb@scgt.oz.au, dg@root.com, netdev@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx, hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199703051326.IAA27175@caipfs.rutgers.edu> (message from Darren Reed on Thu, 6 Mar 1997 00:24:04 +1100 (EDT)) Subject: Re: ok, final sockhash changes, new diff Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk From: Darren Reed Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 00:24:04 +1100 (EDT) > [the hash table should be kept compressed to avoid cache pollution] Why can't it "autoconfigure" according to the size of your RAM ? i.e. more RAM => bigger server => more users/network connections Extra silly cycles in the critical code path. ---------------------------------------------//// Yow! 11.26 MB/s remote host TCP bandwidth & //// 199 usec remote TCP latency over 100Mb/s //// ethernet. Beat that! //// -----------------------------------------////__________ o David S. Miller, davem@caip.rutgers.edu /_____________/ / // /_/ ><