From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 20 15: 6: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br (perninha.conectiva.com.br [200.250.58.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0BFD37B401 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 15:05:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from riel@conectiva.com.br) Received: from burns.conectiva (burns.conectiva [10.0.0.4]) by perninha.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id E801B38C1C for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 19:05:52 -0300 (EST) Received: (qmail 16308 invoked by uid 0); 20 Jun 2001 22:04:32 -0000 Received: from duckman.distro.conectiva (HELO duckman.conectiva.com.br) (root@10.0.17.2) by burns.conectiva with SMTP; 20 Jun 2001 22:04:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (riel@localhost) by duckman.conectiva.com.br (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5KM5ms07105; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 19:05:50 -0300 X-Authentication-Warning: duckman.distro.conectiva: riel owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 19:05:46 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: To: Matt Dillon Cc: "Ashutosh S. Rajekar" , Subject: Re: max kernel memory In-Reply-To: <200106201604.f5KG4ij09941@earth.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > I don't think this represents the biggest problem you would face, > though. It is far more likely that hung or slow connections > (e.g. the originator goes away without disconnecting the socket > or the originator is on a slow link) will represent the biggest > potential problem. It's too bad we can't 'swap out' socket buffers! Even that wouldn't save you from running into address space issues with the kernel, unless you replace all pointers with other kinds of indices ... but that'll probably make things messy. regards, Rik -- Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release: "we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)" http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message