From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:46:40 GMT
Subject: Re: What to expect after 0.99.8
Message-ID: <20051004154640.GC4682@kiste.smurf.noris.de>
In-Reply-To: <434296F1.5030006@zytor.com>

Hi,

H. Peter Anvin:
> >I would however assume that *nobody* sets both the send and receive
> >buffers such that their cumulative size is <4k, so 99 object IDs
> >at 41 bytes definitely should be OK.
> 
> For TCP, I think we should simply get our own (or set) packet buffer 
> size and conform to it.  Problem solved...

Actually, it isn't -- if you have a ssh connection, you don't have
access to the raw TCP socket.

Just limit the number of objects in flight to 20 or so.
Problem also solved.  ;-)

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