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Date:      Tue, 2 Sep 2003 15:03:36 +0300
From:      "Yonatan Bokovza" <Yonatan@xpert.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Problem Tuning Maxsockets
Message-ID:  <C2DC75EEA405354AA9C03EF5CB8CDE089AAB17@exchange.xpert.com>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Company 2210 [mailto:company2210@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 14:49
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Problem Tuning Maxsockets
>=20
>=20
> I am trying to alter the number of maxsockets allocated from=20
> the default of
> 2022 to 8192 on a FreeBSD 4.8 box. However, when I try to perform this
> operation via sysctl I'm informed the oid=20
> (kern.ipc.maxsockets) is read
> only. Does this mean I need to recompile the kernel? I've=20
> tried 'options
> MAXSOCKETS=3D8192' in a kernel recompile - but that was=20
> rejected by the inital
> parse, so either the option is different to the sysctl name=20
> or their is
> another way to do this? Could someone shed some light?

according to init_maxsockets in sys/kern/uips_socket2.c
you should recompile your kernel with a different
NMBCLUSTERS.



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