From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 12 21:30: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8151314CCF for ; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 21:29:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 3.03 #4) id 11xO3X-000Msc-00; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 21:29:55 -0800 Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 21:29:49 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Bosko Milekic Cc: Greg Prosser , freebsd Subject: Re: SYN Hardening patches? / SYN Code in 3.4-RC In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > http://pages.infinit.net/bmilekic/ Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message