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From: Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>,
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Subject: Re: Network performance roadmap.
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On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:12:57PM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:00:04PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > One good way to prevent this is to not unreasonably set
> > your window size... 8-p.
> 
> Ah, I see, so to prevent MBUF exhaustion I should not let
> my socket buffers get large.  Sort of like to prevent serious
> injury in a car crash I should drive at 10MPH on the freeway.
> 
> Performance limits to save a system from crashing should be
> a last resort.

One point is that if a client gets serviced with more performance
the system can reuses the buffers much sooner.

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B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
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