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Date:      Sat, 16 May 1998 13:51:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf param.c src/sys/kern uipc_domain.c uipc_proto.c uipc_socket.c uipc_socket2.c uipc_usrreq.c src/sys/netinet in_pcb.c in_pcb.h ip_divert.c raw_ip.c tcp_subr.c tcp_var.h udp_usrreq.c udp_var.h src/sys/sys socketvar.h un.h ...
Message-ID:  <199805161751.NAA09343@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980516132439.41449@follo.net>
References:  <199805152011.NAA12272@freefall.freebsd.org> <199805152020.QAA02956@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <19980516132439.41449@follo.net>

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<<On Sat, 16 May 1998 13:24:39 +0200, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> said:

>> This is called `maxsockets', and is currently defined to be the
>> maximum of `maxfiles' and `nmbclusters'.  Suggestions for a better
>> value would be appreciated.

> What would be necessary to make it possible for this to be a dynamic
> datastructure, instead of having a maximum limit?

Can't be done.  The limit is there because we can't expand the VM
space the zone allocator uses at interrupt time.  Dyson can probably
explain why this is.

-GAWollman

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