From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jul 11 20:15:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A72BA37B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 20:15:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tp.databus.com (p72-186.acedsl.com [66.114.72.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD39D43E4A for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 20:15:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barney@databus.com) Received: from databus.com (localhost.databus.com [127.0.0.1]) by tp.databus.com (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6C3FJQZ070152 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:15:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from barney@databus.com) Received: (from barney@localhost) by databus.com (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g6C3FJFT070151 for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:15:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:15:19 -0400 From: Barney Wolff To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mbuf external buffer reference counters Message-ID: <20020711231519.A70046@tp.databus.com> References: <20020711220757.A2476@unixdaemons.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from kbyanc@posi.net on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 10:34:46PM -0400 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 Perhaps it might have something to do with disk sector size and memory page size and BUFSIZ all being powers of 2? :) On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 10:34:46PM -0400, Kelly Yancey wrote: > ... that for better or worse userland apps think that > using power-of-2 write buffers will improve performance. -- Barney Wolff I never met a computer I didn't like. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message