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Date:      Fri, 12 May 2006 04:59:55 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>
Cc:        pavlin@icir.org, atanu@icir.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IP_MAX_MEMBERSHIPS story.
Message-ID:  <20060512045737.H24490@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <4463FD1D.9010600@seclark.us>
References:  <20060509122801.GA65297@spc.org> <20060509131517.GB79277@spc.org> <20060512030152.X20138@fledge.watson.org> <4463FD1D.9010600@seclark.us>

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On Thu, 11 May 2006, Stephen Clark wrote:

>> I'm loosely of the opinion that the membership array should be variable 
>> length, and that we should default it to 20, but have a significantly 
>> larger maximum.  It's not horribly efficient, but also wouldn't be so 
>> particularly terrible either.
>> 
> I think it should be tunable other than going in a changing the source code, 
> which I have to do every time I do a cvsup.

I'm suggesting we have a dynamically sizes array, which defaults to a limit of 
20, but can be reallocated and scaled as necessary up to a larger maximum.

Robert N M Watson



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