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Date:      Fri, 3 Jul 1998 03:27:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        eivind@yes.no, jkh@time.cdrom.com, net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how about including dummynet in 2.2.7 ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980703032036.5714T-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199807030846.KAA13909@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> > This is the time to do this.....
> > Peter Wemm is possibly going to add the transparent proxy stuff which
> > blows the struct well over 1 mbuf anyhow.
> > his patch also includes the "use a cluster" fix from -current"
> 
> why not increasing default mbufs to 256 instead of the current 128 ?
> I have heard this is already done in -current and i think it would also
> improve performance with mid-sized packets (e.g. http requests and such)
> by not requiring a cluster. 

-current doesnt use 256 byte mbufs (yet) but the mpath patches
do make this change without any noticable problem.
This is easy to do by simply adding 

options MSIZE=256

in the config file.





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