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Date:      Mon, 1 Jul 2002 10:01:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        don@sandvine.com
Subject:   Re: number mbufs / cluster
Message-ID:  <200207011701.g61H1xYi010406@vashon.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533767664B@mail.sandvine.com>
References:  <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533767664B@mail.sandvine.com>

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In article <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533767664B@mail.sandvine.com>,
Don Bowman  <don@sandvine.com> wrote:
> > 
> > holy cow. How much memory does this thing have and what did you do to
> > abuse it soo much? :-) I didn't think you could jack those values that
> > high and not get panics.
> > 
> 
> I tried changing MCLSHIFT to 10. Although this would seem like
> the right thing to do, some trouble ensues... Some things like nfs
> don't seem to work right (just UDP traffic as far as I could see). 
> (10 would yield a 1K cluster). Are there
> any assumptions somewhere that a cluster is >= MTU size?

Yes, practically every Ethernet driver assumes that a cluster will
hold a full-sized packet.

John
-- 
  John Polstra
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence."  -- Chögyam Trungpa


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