But then everyone with big machines has to change it. Its a non win situation.
> Or, am I totally wrong with thinking that since it isn't reccomended for
> machines with less than 16M that it is a bad thing for machines with 4 and 8M?
It depends. On a server its not so smart, for a client machine you probably
have so few connections at once (<100) that its not going to be a serious
issue. In theory with large windows we could commit 128K of kernel non swappable
memory to one socket. I'd be amazed if you ever managed this