svn commit: r243594 - head/sys/netinet
Alfred Perlstein
bright at mu.org
Sat Dec 8 00:02:35 UTC 2012
On 12/7/12 3:38 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> ..right. I could spin the argument back to you Alfred and say "make
> the default compile time settings for i386/amd64/sparc64 GENERIC to
> have bigger TCP hash sizes, default mbuf tuning, larger kernel dmesg
> buffer sizes, increased mutex hash table sizes, etc, and leave the
> defaults as they are.
>
> What I'm trying to say/encourage is some more even-handed ways of
> doing this, rather than "hey, it works in the server world, that's all
> that matters, right?"
>
> And FYI - installation on embedded devices these days is "open device
> web page, upload firmware image, hit "flash", reboot." That's what
> openwrt and dd-wrt do for the majority of their platforms. No serial
> console required.
>
> As I said, I don't think everyone invested in this is seeing the
> bigger picture and trying to work out whether we can solve this in a
> better fashion. The peeps in the Linux world _have_ come up with _a_
> solution that seems to work. So it's not that its intractable.
Adrian, then tell me what to do other than "wait".
Figure it out, let's iterate and shake out the issues already.
-Alfred
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