From owner-freebsd-net Sun Mar 28 2:34:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from picalon.gun.de (picalon.gun.de [194.77.0.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0200C14DF3 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 02:34:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: from klemm.gtn.com (pppak04.gtn.com [194.231.123.169]) by picalon.gun.de (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id MAA18173; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 12:33:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id MAA01882; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 12:15:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andreas) Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 12:15:01 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Garrett Wollman Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mbuf clusters and socket send buffers (was Re: 3.1-STABLE dies on 40+ connects) Message-ID: <19990328121501.A1353@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <199903260054.QAA22060@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> <199903261504.KAA23189@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199903261504.KAA23189@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman on Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 10:04:22AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE SMP X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 10:04:22AM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > A thought related to this discussion: does it make sense to allow the > > send buffers to be larger than the peer's advertised window size? > > In other words, why "preposition" those bytes in the kernel before > > the peer has indicated a willingness to accept them? > > No, it doesn't. Just ask Van Jacobson. > > Unfortunately, that doesn't get OUR TCP stack rewritten any faster. What do you think about the work of the PSC ? http://www.psc.edu/networking/auto.html This has been brought up in this thread... -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message