From: Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:46:36 -0700
> David Miller wrote: > > If DLM really wants minimum, it can use SO_SNDBUFFORCE and > > SO_RCVBUFFORCE socket options and use whatever limits it > > likes. > > > > But even this is questionable. > > Drift... > > Is that something netperf should be using though? Right now it uses the > regular > SO_[SND|RCV]BUF calls and is at the mercy of sysctls. I wonder if it would > be > better to have it use their FORCE versions to make life easier on the > benchmarker - such as myself - who has an unfortunate habit of forgetting to > update sysctl.conf :) The force calls are for root only. And I want to remind you that explicitly setting socket buffer sizes hurts performance with TCP. I know you know this but it bears restating for the benefit of others. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
