From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jun 27 5: 9:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from patrocles.silby.com (d130.as7.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net [169.207.130.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 247E537B4D6 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 05:09:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from patrocles.silby.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by patrocles.silby.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g5RCBqcv067854; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 07:11:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: from localhost (silby@localhost) by patrocles.silby.com (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) with ESMTP id g5RCBmen067851; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 07:11:50 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: patrocles.silby.com: silby owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 07:11:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Patrick Thomas Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tune down recvspace for this ? In-Reply-To: <20020627030821.M68572-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> Message-ID: <20020627071056.N67834-100000@patrocles.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Patrick Thomas wrote: > 99/10208/34816 mbufs in use (current/peak/max): > > Would changing net.inet.tcp.recvspace down to 32768 (default is 65536) be > a wise thing to do ? > > Or are there other better suggestions ? > > thanks, > > PT Actually, you usually use most of your mbuf (clusters) for sending, not receiving. Hence, sendspace is what you may wish to kick down in order to reduce usage. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message