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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:35:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
To: net@freebsd.org
Subject: Getting rid of maxsockets.
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Would anyone be upset if I got rid of maxsockets and consequently the
limits on the *pcb zones?  This was previously used so that the zone
allocator could allocate items at interrupt time.  Now you can just supply
M_NOWAIT/WAITOK and get the desired effect without a hard limit.

Jeff


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