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From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: help with mbufs
To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: Richard Tobin's message of Sun, 3 Jun 2001 22:55:53 +0100 (BST)
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Answering my own question:

> I expected that after getting ENOBUFS, the peak value would be equal
> to the maximum.

It seems that it wasn't actually a shortage of mbufs, but rather the
socket's send or receive queue full, fixable with setsockopt.  This
possibility is mentioned on the man page for send(2), but not for
write(2).

-- Richard

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