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Date:      Fri, 19 Mar 1999 17:29:44 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
Cc:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon), hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Gigabit ethernet revisited 
Message-ID:  <199903200129.RAA07762@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Mar 1999 20:32:44 EST." <199903200132.UAA04463@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> 

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> (Now I know what's going to happen here. Somebody's going to glibly
> suggest increasing the socket buffer size. I tried that, by increasing
> the value of kern.ipc.maxsockbuf. It didn't make any difference. If
> somebody wants to suggest something along these lines, don't do it in
> a vague and hand-waving fashion. Before you make the suggestion, try
> to do it yourself. Make a note of exactly what you do. See if it actually
> has a positive effect on the problem. _Then_ explain _exactly_ what you 
> did so that I can duplicate it.)

I told you to wind up the socket's receive buffer size with the 
approproate socket option in the user app.  I don't know what the 
_real_ "right" answer is for UDP.  For TCP, you can try setting the 
pipe size for the route to tweak the socket buffers.

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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