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Date:      Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:11:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Stas Kisel <stas@sonet.crimea.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mbuf shortage situations
Message-ID:  <199909101511.LAA17473@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199909100541.JAA13107@sonet.crimea.ua>
References:  <19990909110720.A6694@puck.nether.net> <199909100541.JAA13107@sonet.crimea.ua>

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<<On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 09:41:54 +0400 (MSD), Stas Kisel <stas@sonet.crimea.ua> said:

> There is a limitation - buffer can not be bigger than ~240k.

Socket buffers cannot be larger than kernel tunable
kern.ipc.maxsockbuf (default 256K).  However, the actual memory
potentially allocated to the socket buffer is much larger
(kern.ipc.maxsockbuf * kern.ipc.sockbuf_waste_factor).

-GAWollman

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