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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:09:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
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Subject: Re: cluster size
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You must be asking why the mbuf cluster size is chosen as 2048, right? It
is probably a tradeoff between memory efficient and speed.

-Zhihui

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] vishwanath pargaonkar wrote:

> Hi,
> in freebsd can we change the cluster size from 2048
> bytes.If yes how can we do that?
> do we have to configure in some file?
> 
> TIA
> vishwanath
> 
> 
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