From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 13 21:36:02 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA27070 for current-outgoing; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 21:36:02 -0800 Received: from hutcs.cs.hut.fi (root@hutcs.cs.hut.fi [130.233.192.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA27058 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 21:35:54 -0800 Received: from shadows.cs.hut.fi by hutcs.cs.hut.fi with SMTP id AA07726 (5.65c8/HUTCS-S 1.4 for ); Tue, 14 Nov 1995 07:35:49 +0200 Received: (hsu@localhost) by shadows.cs.hut.fi (8.6.10/8.6.10) id HAA27798; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 07:36:05 +0200 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 07:36:05 +0200 Message-Id: <199511140536.HAA27798@shadows.cs.hut.fi> From: Heikki Suonsivu To: Bruce Evans Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ISP state their FreeBSD concerns In-Reply-To: <199511132237.JAA10845@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <199511132237.JAA10845@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND, hsu@cs.hut.fi home +358-0-8031121 work -4513377 fax -4555276 riippu SN