Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 01:39:17 GMT From: Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com> To: fenner@parc.xerox.com Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MLEN < write length < MINCLSIZE "bug" Message-ID: <199812160139.BAA02158@netrinsics.com> In-Reply-To: <98Dec15.085714pst.177535@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> writes: >>Is there any documentation on why MINCLSIZE is currently set to the value it >>is? > >Not that I know of, but I can't say for sure that there's not something >in the 4.4 daemon book. You know what the main tradeoff is of reducing >MINCLSIZE (and there are some subtle ones too - set your socket buffer >to 64k and start writing in 120-byte chunks and see when the socket >buffer fills up). Well, I just discovered another interesting effect of the smaller MINCLSIZE. After exhaustive testing with the standard X benchmarking utility (xmame), I've discovered a significant performance improvement for graphics- intensive X applications. -Michael Robinson P.S. It may be a while before I get around to testing your "short" patch ;-). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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