On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 11:00:56PM +0200, Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > First of all, let me say that Im newbie with these topics, > I only know a bit about mbufs, but I dont understand how > can an application trim away the refcount if the size is > MCLBYTES = 2040 - sizeof(refcount). > > Don't this limit the room which an app. can write ?
No. It just changes it. Also, it's not the application trimming away anything, and the size is not 2040, it's 2048. :-) FWIW, the application has no idea about mbufs or clusters. These are buffers and structures only the kernel knows about. > Thanks. > > JFRH -- Bosko Milekic [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message