Berry, No, there's no logic in the TCP/IP stack to reduce the size of the buffers once they've been expanded. It would be nice though...
Regards, Miguel Delapaz z/VM TCP/IP Development The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> wrote on 06/22/2007 03:40:44 PM: > Hello Alan, > > That would get me to a question, are buffers that are dynamically extended > automatically reduced once they're no longer needed? As you state, more > buffers could have impact for other users. So suppose we would have a sudden > need for larger buffers to perform some action. If the action is finished > and the larger buffer still remains it too would have an impact on the > available storage. > > Regards, Berry.
