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From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
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Subject: Is it save to increase MSIZE on -STABLE?
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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 20:25:30 +0200 (CEST)
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According to the squid FAQ, it would be good to increase the
size (not the number) of the mbuf buffers when running squid.

See also http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/FAQ/FAQ-14.html#ss14.2

There they do it by adding

	options         MSIZE="256"

to the kernel config file. Since I found various references
to MSIZE in userland, wouldn't it be better to tweak
/usr/include/machine/param.h and build world and kernel?

Or is it unadvisable to do that at all? WHat do the memory
experts think?

Thanks,

	-Andre

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