Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:29:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sbappend() is not scalable Message-ID: <199910082129.RAA67391@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199910082051.PAA25028@cs.rice.edu> References: <199910082051.PAA25028@cs.rice.edu>
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<<On Fri, 8 Oct 1999 15:51:29 -0500 (CDT), Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu> said: > can be about 600 mbufs in the socket buffer waiting to be acknowledged. Thus > upon every ACK, about 600 mbufs are traversed causing the TCP sender to run > out of CPU. This is a well-known feature of the 4BSD socket layer. The right fix is to get rid of the socket layer, but this requires a substantial effort that none of the people who know how to do it have been able to put in. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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