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Date:      Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:51:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        vishwanath pargaonkar <vishubp@yahoo.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cluster size
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0107251350010.20991-100000@opal>
In-Reply-To: <3B5E69C5.3D3C259E@mindspring.com>

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On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > in freebsd can we change the cluster size from 2048
> > > bytes.If yes how can we do that?
> > > do we have to configure in some file?
> > 
> > You must be asking why the mbuf cluster size is chosen as 2048, right? It
> > is probably a tradeoff between memory efficient and speed.
> 
> Ask yourselves:
> 
> 	"What is the minimum cluster size I would have to have
> 	 to be able to contain the maximum MTU worth of data,
> 	 yet remain an even multiple of sizeof(mbuf) -- 256
> 	 bytes?"

A dumb question: why even not odd multiple?

-Zhihui


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