From owner-freebsd-net Sun Jul 7 17:18:53 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 80D3F37B400 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 17:18:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from patrocles.silby.com (d85.as13.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net [169.207.135.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04DDE43E31 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 17:18:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: from patrocles.silby.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by patrocles.silby.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g680MFcv015294; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 19:22:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: from localhost (silby@localhost) by patrocles.silby.com (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) with ESMTP id g680MDV8015291; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 19:22:14 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: patrocles.silby.com: silby owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 19:22:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the incredible shrinking socket In-Reply-To: <20020707195321.GN97638@elvis.mu.org> Message-ID: <20020707192134.T15265-100000@patrocles.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Possibly, but the additional pointer dereference would be expensive > and a lot of code would have to change without the compatibility > macros. > > I sort of did it as a proof of concept, but of course since it doesn't > completely work I haven't proved it. :) > > > -- > -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] Well, if it's not working I wouldn't worry too much about it. A TIME_WAIT cache or socket buffer autosizing would probably save a lot more memory. :) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message