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Re: [PATCH] Improve behaviour of Netlink Sockets

To: jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve behaviour of Netlink Sockets
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:46:14 +1000
Cc: Pablo Neira <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:43:27PM -0400, jamal wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 17:36, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> > You still haven't told me what you're going to use 3) for yet...
> 
> Sorry, keep forgetting to retrieve it from other remote non-networked
> test machine. The idea is:
> Create something that generates lots of messages. Make socket buffer
> small (4096 is good nuf)

No that's not what I meant.  What I mean is what is the real-world
scenario where you're going to be doing 3).

Only when we know where the messages are coming from and what they
are can we decide on a meaningful method of limiting their rate.

Thanks,
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