Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:41:40 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections? Message-ID: <43836.945560500@monkeys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 18 Dec 1999 14:29:30 -0800. <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912181425040.94972-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912181425040.94972-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>, you wrote: > > >On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > >> # Increase the max # of open sockets, systemwide (use only on older kernels) >> #/sbin/sysctl -w kern.somaxconn=16384 > >Regarding the comment, "use only on older kernels", why only on older >kernels? Ummm.... because newer kernels don't seem to have any such parameter. :-) >What classifies as an older kernel--pre-3.0? pre-3.3? Try executing the command: /sbin/sysctl -w kern.somaxconn=16384 as root. If it works, then you have an ``older'' kernel. If it doesn't, then you have a ``newer'' one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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