mbufs on 5.3-STABLE possible bug

[Chris]

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From: Chris <chrcoluk at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 05:16:00 +0000
Subject: Re: mbufs on 5.3-STABLE possible bug
To: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic at technokratis.com>


0 is supposed to mean unlimited, whilst leaving it blank(commented
out) is auto.  Or at least the docs say that.  If I am wrong the docs
need updating and it is defenitly a bug as netstat -m output is
different.

Chris


On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:37:18 -0500, Bosko Milekic
<bmilekic at technokratis.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:18:38PM +0000, Chris wrote:
> > Sorry, yes have tried it, I am still seeing a negative perofrmance
> > difference with the setting on 0 but the gap is greatly reduced and
> > its something that is a lot more acceptable, at most it has been 10%
> > worse then if left on auto or set to a value.  Let me know if there is
> > any specific types of tests you want doing.
> >
> > Chris
>
>  I'm not sure I understand.  Setting it to zero _means_ "auto."
>
>  I'll likely commit the patch.  Thanks.
>
> --
> Bosko Milekic
> bmilekic at technokratis.com
> bmilekic at FreeBSD.org
>