Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 23:35:29 +0300 From: "Iantcho Vassilev" <ianchov@gmail.com> To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kern.ipc.somaxconn should be high for a PF firewall with a lot of states Message-ID: <18e02bd30605311335j4f0baaffs62002d4b72c7715b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44ac8y1cfk.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <18e02bd30605290545j1c9cceebwedc8d28bbf270e11@mail.gmail.com> <44ac8y1cfk.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On 5/31/06, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > > "Iantcho Vassilev" <ianchov@gmail.com> writes: > > > kern.ipc.somaxconn is for handling more incoming connections,right? > > Well, kind of. It's a systemwide limit on the maximum number of > connections that a given socket can accept. > > > but > does > > firewall connections are considered incoming? > > No, not really. But the question doesn't really make sense. What are > you trying to do? I just wanted to know..Actually i have a very loaded firewall(PF) with a lot of states and i was wondering if this can help.. But if it is for sockets(something i have missed) then i will not help.. What can this variable help(mysql socket?)?
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