From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263429AbTECVeE (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 May 2003 17:34:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263434AbTECVeE (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 May 2003 17:34:04 -0400 Received: from newman.cs.purdue.edu ([128.10.2.6]:54450 "EHLO newman.cs.purdue.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263429AbTECVeD (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 May 2003 17:34:03 -0400 Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 16:46:29 -0500 From: Jae-Young Kim To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: maximum size of wmem_max / rmem_max Message-ID: <20030503214629.GA7398@punch.cs.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I am curious about the maximum value of wmem_max and rmem_max. As far as I know the values of them are maximum byte size of send buffer and receive buffer allocated for a socket. What I'm wondering is how much memory we can assign for them. Can we assign the whole memory space for them? Or is there any limitation of the values? - Jay