Re: Network buffer hang was Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata

David S. Miller
2003-09-12T01:52:03Z

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:46:24 -0700
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:

> I was using kernel 2.4.21 or so, and had tcp buffers turned up
> quite high.

You seal your own fate by setting this too high. It's meant
to keep TCP from commiting too much system memory to itself.