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Date:      Wed, 7 Feb 2001 14:48:59 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: send problem on udp socket...
Message-ID:  <200102071948.OAA45795@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3A818B31.9B12C8B3@softweyr.com>
References:  <200102071714.f17HEDH75274@iguana.aciri.org> <20010207093731.N26076@fw.wintelcom.net> <3A818B31.9B12C8B3@softweyr.com>

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<<On Wed, 07 Feb 2001 10:51:45 -0700, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> said:

> A starting point, increment, and ceiling

NMBCLUSTERS *is* the ceiling.  No memory is actually allocated
(although virtual address space is) until those clusters are actually
requested.

> based on the memory size of the system

That would be an improvement, but recall that many of these sorts of
parameters are there in order to limit fragmentation of the kernel
virtual address space.  There's no safe way to GC kernel virtual
space.

-GAWollman



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