From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 16 10:51:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12735 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 16 May 1998 10:51:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12723 for ; Sat, 16 May 1998 10:51:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09343; Sat, 16 May 1998 13:51:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 13:51:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199805161751.NAA09343@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Eivind Eklund Cc: Garrett Wollman , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf param.c src/sys/kern uipc_domain.c uipc_proto.c uipc_socket.c uipc_socket2.c uipc_usrreq.c src/sys/netinet in_pcb.c in_pcb.h ip_divert.c raw_ip.c tcp_subr.c tcp_var.h udp_usrreq.c udp_var.h src/sys/sys socketvar.h un.h ... In-Reply-To: <19980516132439.41449@follo.net> References: <199805152011.NAA12272@freefall.freebsd.org> <199805152020.QAA02956@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <19980516132439.41449@follo.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: >> This is called `maxsockets', and is currently defined to be the >> maximum of `maxfiles' and `nmbclusters'. Suggestions for a better >> value would be appreciated. > What would be necessary to make it possible for this to be a dynamic > datastructure, instead of having a maximum limit? Can't be done. The limit is there because we can't expand the VM space the zone allocator uses at interrupt time. Dyson can probably explain why this is. -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-current" in the body of the message