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On 7/15/13 5:44 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> On 15.07.2013 08:38, Andre Oppermann wrote:
>> On 13.07.2013 09:47, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>> Andre, we have a number of people running this patch in the 
>>> following configurations:
>>>
>>> 6-8GB ram + 10gigE ethernet using iozone over NFS.
>>
>> As you haven't seen any problems yet I've asked RE to green light
>> the MFC.
>
> RE has rejected the MFC out of fears for unexpected regressions.
>

That is unfortunate.  I guess re@ doesn't understand that FreeBSD 9.2 
will be unusable out of the box for doing 10gigE for more than a few 
microseconds.

Can we not just do my original patch that has the check for 64bit 
pointers before unscaling maxusers?  That would be dirt simple and just 
work with minimal risk.

-- 
Alfred Perlstein
VP Software Engineering, iXsystems