Increasing the server wsize/rsize

Greg Banks gnb at melbourne.sgi.com
Wed Aug 2 23:16:28 EDT 2006


On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 07:03, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 07:34:43PM -0400, Dean Hildebrand wrote:
> > Thanks for the updates Greg.  One issue I've found is that if we want to 
> > go larger than 1MB, we still need to fix svc_tcp_recvfrom to use the 
> > heap instead of the stack.
> 
> Even with only 1MB, we're still putting a 1k array on the stack in that
> one function, which seems like a problem.

Yes, this is definitely a problem on i386.  I hadn't experienced
any issues because with ia64 I have 8x the stack and the array
is half the size.

When/if I get some time I'll try bumping wsize to 2MB and run it
with the data corruption test I use.

Greg.
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Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
I don't speak for SGI.




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