Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 07:36:05 +0200 From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ISP state their FreeBSD concerns Message-ID: <199511140536.HAA27798@shadows.cs.hut.fi> In-Reply-To: <199511132237.JAA10845@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <199511132237.JAA10845@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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Bruce Evans writes:
> >+ #ifndef RS_IBUFSIZE
> > #define RS_IBUFSIZE 256
> >+ #endif
> >...
> >and these in my configuration files
>
> >maxusers 128
> >options "NMBCLUSTERS=4096"
> >options "TTYHOG=8192"
> >options "RS_IBUFSIZE=2048"
> Your setup is very special. Hardware flow control is required to handle
> transient high loads. If you can't use it and can't handle dropped input
> then you have to do a lot of work to guarantee that there are no transient
> high loads. Processes doing serial i/o must run often enough to read
I don't mind your opinion, and will continue inserting my patch in my
systems to make FreeBSD work. But I do think FreeBSD might gain more
popularity by being able to receive PPP at 115.2k, even without flow
control and without kernel patches.
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