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Date:      Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:47:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
To:        silby@silby.com
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel tuning for large maxsockets
Message-ID:  <200307160047.h6G0lZM7030892@gw.catspoiler.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030715173449.R18075@odysseus.silby.com>

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On 15 Jul, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Scot Loach wrote:
> 
>> Is there any reason I should not modify the kernel code to only let a small,
>> fixed number of raw and divert pcbs be preallocated instead of having them
>> scale with maxsockets?
> 
> Your idea is sound.
> 
>> Next, does this seem like a generally useful thing that could be rolled back
>> into the source tree?  I could make this a kernel option or a tunable sysctl
>> variable.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Scot Loach
> 
> A tunable maximum for each of those settings sounds good, that should fit
> well in subr_param.c.  Send me your patch when it's done, and I'll look
> into incorporating it.

I'd prefer separate tunables.  I suspect that it is also common to have
vastly different requirements for the numbers of TCP and UDP sockets.



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