Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 13:53:50 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: davidg@root.com Cc: terry@lambert.org, jc@irbs.com, shorty@iii.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network problems, please assist Message-ID: <199509102053.NAA15245@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199509101923.MAA02855@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Sep 10, 95 12:23:09 pm
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> >This should probably be fixed so that the buffers are soft reconfigurable > >or configured for gateway by default. > > This is already the case. It has been this way for awhile: > > ---------------------------- > revision 1.11 > date: 1995/06/29 08:21:32; author: davidg; state: Exp; lines: +1 -5 > Removed "GATEWAY" consideration when calculating number of mbuf clusters. > It now always uses the value that was used for the GATEWAY case. Yeah. This is probably the wrong thing to do for the non-GATEWAY case. > It isn't practical to make it soft configurable because the size of the > mb_map must be calculated at startup time. We could (should!) make some > extensions to 'userconfig' to allow you to change things like this. Or make mb_map resizeable. I hate static configuration. > I highly recommend that you subscribe to the cvs-all mailing list so that > you don't give out so much disinformation. I prefer to run "cvs log" on specific files; too bad it doesn't work with SUP instead of CTM. Having too many buffers for the non-GATEWAY case is little better than having few in the GATWAY case. Both are equally broken. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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