* Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001013 05:03] wrote: > > Is there a reason why the kernel might hold on to mbufs for "too long a > time" (I take that to mean longer than it should)? There are many reasons, one is that you may be sending data that hasn't been ack'd and might need retransmition. There may also be a lot of data 'in flight' meaning that one reading data from the network and the reader is slower than the writer which keeps mbufs tied down in the socket buffers. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
