On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:30:36 -0700 "Charlie Brett" <cfb@ldl.fc.hp.com> wrote: > Does anyone have an explaination/history on this? I would like to > propose enhancing/changing it. Good luck because I'm not likely to entertain such ideas. :-) It's so that a user cannot generate a stream of 1 byte packets and only get charged for 1 byte even though he is comsuming much more unswappable memory in the system. If you want to not have things get accounted this way, you may want to consider using BSD for example :-) (actually, I think they do what we do these days) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html