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

From: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:41:03 -0700

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:46:24 -0700
Ben Greear <[email-masked]> 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.