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Date:      Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:18:19 -0500
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Network performance tuning.
Message-ID:  <20010712211819.D6664@sneakerz.org>
In-Reply-To: <200107130128.f6D1SFE59148@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:28:15PM -0700
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* Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> [010712 20:28] wrote:
> 
>     This is fairly easy to do for the transmit side of things and would
>     yield an immediate improvement in available mbuf space.  For the receive
>     side of things we can't really do anything with existing connections
>     (because we've already advertised that the space is available to the
>     remote end), but we can certainly reduce the buffer space we reserve
>     for new connections.  If the system is handling a large number of 
>     connections then this sort of scaling will work fairly well due to
>     attrition.  

Actually, we can shrink the window, but that's strongly discouraged
by a lot of papers/books.

>     So in regards to Leo's suggestions.  I think we can bump up our current
>     defaults, and I would support increasing the 16384 default to 24576 or
>     possibly even 32768 as well as increasing the number of mbufs.  But
>     that is only a stopgap measure.  What we really need to do is what I 
>     just described.

It doesn't sound too bad to just double the current values, are you going
to commit it?

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'?
And why do my programs keep crashing in it?

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