From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 4 19:47:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA14111 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 19:47:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA14098 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 19:46:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA00470; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 22:44:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199803050344.WAA00470@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: silo overflows (Was Re: 3.0-RELEASE?) In-Reply-To: <199803050332.TAA23822@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Mar 4, 98 07:32:25 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 22:44:40 -0500 (EST) Cc: dmaddox@scsn.net, evanc@synapse.net, Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au, mike@smith.net.au, shimon@simon-shapiro.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith said: > > Interesting; why change the mbuf size? Is this a recommended change > for general operation, or is 128 bytes still preferred? > The MSIZE isn't needed. > > > options "TTYHOG=4096" > > This increases tty-internal buffers, but wouldn't be expected to affect > interrupt latency. (There may be some carryover though.) > > - Were you seeing "silo overflow" messages? > - Have the above changes affected your actual throughput? > Note that i also changed the thresholds in the sio.c file. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message