[Winpcap-users] Kernel buffer

Sabbiolina sabbiolina at gmail.com
Fri Oct 21 18:16:38 GMT 2005


But 127MB is less than 256MB

On 10/21/05, Gianluca Varenni <gianluca.varenni at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>  The reason for this behavior is that the driver buffer is allocated in
> the kernel non-paged pool memory (i.e. kernel memory that is not subject
> to paging), and the upper limit for this pool on Windows NT(2000/XP/...) x86
> is 256MB.
>  Have a nice day
> GV
>   ----- Original Message -----
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> *From:* Sabbiolina <sabbiolina at gmail.com>
> *To:* Winpcap-users at winpcap.org
> *Sent:* Friday, October 21, 2005 2:15 AM
> *Subject:* [Winpcap-users] Kernel buffer
>
> I have 2 gigs of RAM but I can't make the packet driver allocate more than
> 127 megs. Anybody has a slight idea of the reason of this behavior?
>
>
> Tnx
> Sabbiolina
>
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