Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:

> On 03 Aug 1999 17:17:17 -0700 
>  Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org> wrote:
> 
>  > It's unfortunate that network sockets seem to reserve so much space.
>  > How do other 256M machines running FreeBSD (for example) cope with
>  > 10,000 or more TCP streams open at once?  If we did that, we'd end up
>  > allocating about 312M just for socket buffers, I think...
> 
> Um...
> 
> Socket buffers aren't "allocated".  When you "allocate" a socket buffer,
> you're placing a limit on it... the actual space is lazy allocated... the
> "allocated" space is actually mbufs allocated in a network driver and
> handed up the stack.

Ok, let me rephrase.  "a few hundred sockets sending/receiving data as
fast as possible" will crash and/or hang any out of the box NetBSD
machine.

--Michael