From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: Bug-hunting Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:44:48 -0800 Message-ID: <20050222104448.31373a99.davem@davemloft.net> References: <421B4AB7.9030003@rapidforum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com To: Christian Schmid In-Reply-To: <421B4AB7.9030003@rapidforum.com> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:07:35 +0100 Christian Schmid wrote: > I am still trying to hunt down the bug with the slowdown-on-many-sockets. Is there any way I can see > how much tcp-memory is used right now? Why did you change the behaviour? In 2.6.10-rc2 I was able to > see the amount by looking in slabinfo but now the buffers are gone. And where did you introduce the > buffer-limit? It seems its now globally limited to xxx MB. I want to disable this in order to check > if thats the reason. The global TCP memory limit, controllable by sysctl()'s, has been there for at least 3 years.