Subject: Re: Ringbuffer-size?
To: Waldi Ravens <waldi@moacs.indiv.nl.net>
From: Leo Weppelman <leo@wau.mis.ah.nl>
List: port-atari
Date: 11/04/1995 14:18:42
> 
> Daniel Eriksson wrote:
> 
> > I'm running NetBSD on an unaccelerated Falcon with a highspeed
> > modem (V.34+). The normal ringbuffersize (256) gives me constant
> > overruns. I guess "the bigger the better" isn't the only thing to
> > consider. Any suggestions?
> 
> I started at 16KB, but found that 4096 bytes is enough (YMMV).
The elements of the ringbuffer are ints - 4 bytes - this means
that setting ZLRB_RING_SIZE to 4096 will allocate 16Kb. I was
planning to increase the ring size to 4096 for the 1.1 release.
It's still open for discussion though - not too long ;-)

Leo.