On Sep 8, 2011, at 14:45, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 11:26:29AM -0400, Matthew Mondor wrote: >> >> It would be nice to for instance be able to use an MTU of 3000 so that >> there are less context switches, but unfortunately tracing the >> processes show that 1024 bytes are read from the pty devices at most. > > Are you sure using an MTU of 3000 would do much of anything? Since > almost all peers are connected by Ethernet somewhere along the line, > you are unlikely to ever see packets larger than 1500 minus Ethernet > framing size.
... unless they're using jumbo frames. Potentially 9Kbytes, depending upon NICs and switches. Erik <f...@netbsd.org>