On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:59:03PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Wed, 2006-Sep-20 23:59:13 +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: > >I have rewritten kern_sendfile() to work in two loops, the inner which turns > >as many pages into mbufs as it can up to the free send socket buffer space. > > The 64K blocks sounds good but how does this interact with TCP slow > start? Is there the possibility that a couple (for some reasonably > large value of 'couple') of TCP connections slowly accepting a file > could eat all the mbuf space? >
You always have this issue no matter if you use sendfile or not. This is why the socket buffers are limited and why sometimes having large sendbuffers is bad -- especially on busy servers. -- :wq Claudio _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
