From owner-freebsd-net Fri Jul 3 03:32:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA01500 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 03:32:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA01420 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 03:32:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA21380; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 03:27:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd021378; Fri Jul 3 10:27:19 1998 Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 03:27:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Luigi Rizzo cc: eivind@yes.no, jkh@time.cdrom.com, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how about including dummynet in 2.2.7 ? In-Reply-To: <199807030846.KAA13909@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > This is the time to do this..... > > Peter Wemm is possibly going to add the transparent proxy stuff which > > blows the struct well over 1 mbuf anyhow. > > his patch also includes the "use a cluster" fix from -current" > > why not increasing default mbufs to 256 instead of the current 128 ? > I have heard this is already done in -current and i think it would also > improve performance with mid-sized packets (e.g. http requests and such) > by not requiring a cluster. -current doesnt use 256 byte mbufs (yet) but the mpath patches do make this change without any noticable problem. This is easy to do by simply adding options MSIZE=256 in the config file. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message