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Date:	Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:22:39 +0000
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Corinna Vinschen writes:

> it's nice to know that you could increase the performance by increasing
> the buffer sizes.  However, I'm reluctant to implement this as a generic
> option.  As far as I know the socket buffers are taken from nonpaged pool,
> so generically using 2 Meg buffers will take a lot of precious resources.

And contribute to bufferbloat problems [1] [2] elsewhere!

ht

[1] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2076798
[2] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2071893
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