From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Kumiko Ono <kumiko@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How can we make more use of memory for TCP properly?
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:20:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606140720.20504.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <448F323A.7000005@cs.columbia.edu>
> Accorting to TCP man page, the kernel calculates the values of
> sysctl_tcp_mem depending on available physical memory at boot time.
> I added 2GB RAM to a machine that had 2GB, and then it has 4GB RAM now.
> However, the value of sysctl_tcp_mem[2] has not changed from 196608
> (pages). The machine is running at Linux 2.6.16.5 i686 Intel(R)
> Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz.
TCP can only use low memory for this which is limited to around 900MB
on 32bit systems. 64bit CPUs don't have this problem.
-Andi
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2006-06-13 21:46 How can we make more use of memory for TCP properly? Kumiko Ono
2006-06-14 5:20 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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