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Date:      Mon, 03 Jul 2000 20:51:35 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@dsuper.net>
Cc:        David Greenman <dg@root.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mbuf re-write(s), v 0.1 
Message-ID:  <7941.962650295@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Jul 2000 13:39:13 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007031238150.412-100000@jehovah.technokratis.com> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007031238150.412-100000@jehovah.technokratis.com>, B
osko Milekic writes:

>	When I posted the initial diff, I provided such data. I'll repeat: a
>  good example is at: http://24.201.62.9/stats/mbuf.html 

Considering the prominence of DoS attacks and similar, I think it
makes a lot of sense to be able to free the memory again, and if
the hysteresis you have built in means that there is no measurable
performance impact I think you will face no objections.

Is it possible to auto-tune min_on_avail somehow ?

What if instead you made it free only when more than 50% of the
memory allocated from the map was unused ?

Could that freeing be done by a timeout routine which runs every
N seconds ?

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