Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:20:12 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: LILO and serial speeds over 9600 |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Explain 'controlled buffer overrun'. > > > > That's probably the ability to send new data even if there's unacked old > > data (e.g. because the receiver can't keep up or because we've had losses). > > Well let me see, the typical window on the other end of the connection if > its a normal PC class host will be 32K. I think that should be sufficient. >
Depends on what the client can handle. For the kernel, that might be true, but for example a boot loader may only have a few K worth of buffer space.
-hpa
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