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>
> Hello Folks @ 3000-L,
>
> Re: sockets patches

> I have also herd concerns expressed about problems reaching the
> limits of the inbound buffer pool... The buffer pool for our
> purposes is a area where link drivers can perform Direct Memory
> Access (DMA) writes and then pass the pointers to the Upper level
> Protocols TCP, UDP and a few less known.  Once again sorry to
> disappoint you, but NO changes in the Buffer Manger and Inbound
> Buffer Pools from 5.5 to 6.0.  Actually I can not think of a bug
> fix in years to this subsystem, but this sort of makes sense since
> every link connected to the 3000 passes every frame received and
> every frame sent through these buffer pools.
>

Just a thought, change in application behavior resulting in failures
to release sockets could be due to changes in other areas of MPE/iX.
For example, I recall changes in behavior of programs from one MPE
release to the next due to unintialized storage.


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