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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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