From owner-freebsd-net Tue May 15 22:24:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F61537B423 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 22:24:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1098) id 31F7181D01; Wed, 16 May 2001 00:24:27 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 00:24:27 -0500 From: Bill Fumerola To: raviprasad20@netscape.net Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Free BSD network buffers Message-ID: <20010516002427.P37979@elvis.mu.org> References: <4F2A777A.3AABE4DC.9513E96F@netscape.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4F2A777A.3AABE4DC.9513E96F@netscape.net>; from raviprasad20@netscape.net on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:17:44AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-FEARSOME-20010328 i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:17:44AM -0400, raviprasad20@netscape.net wrote: > My doubt is whether mbuf's along with clusters will be used for large data sizes like 65536 bytes? No, for data that big we use vnodes. That way we can swap out in times of low memory. To really take advantage of this, use softupdates so the meta-data operations on the network buffers can be scheduled async. -- Bill Fumerola - security yahoo / Yahoo! inc. - fumerola@yahoo-inc.com / billf@FreeBSD.org ps. hi alfred. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message