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Date:      Sun, 12 Dec 1999 21:29:49 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@dsuper.net>
Cc:        Greg Prosser <greg@snickers.org>, freebsd <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: SYN Hardening patches? / SYN Code in 3.4-RC
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9912122128301.15077-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9912121800010.14381-100000@oracle.dsuper.net>

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On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Bosko Milekic wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Tom wrote:
> 
> !>
> !>  Setting maxusers to 256 isn't help you any at all, btw.
> !>
> !>Tom
> !>
> 
> 	This is simply untrue.
> 
> 	MAXUSERS directly influences the number of mbufs which, in turn,
>   influence the size of mb_map. Bumping up MAXUSERS in reasonable amounts
>   will, in fact, contribute to a larger mb_map.

  Yes, but if you override NMBCLUSTERS, MAXUSERS isn't able to do that.
If you look at the original post, you will see that seeting maxusers to
256 does not help if you also set NMBCLUSTERS to 2048.

> --
>   Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@dsuper.net>
>   http://pages.infinit.net/bmilekic/

Tom



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