From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 1 16:24: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hypatia.unh.edu (hypatia.unh.edu [132.177.137.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EDA237B410 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 16:23:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eross (student3a-142.unh.edu [132.177.69.142]) by hypatia.unh.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id f91NMpl190594 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 19:22:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000c01c14acf$db5c0090$8e45b184@eross> From: "Andrew Eross" To: Subject: socket buffer space Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 19:21:53 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0009_01C14AAE.53DAD5E0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C14AAE.53DAD5E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I'm curious what causes this exactly... I noticed this occurring when I = used a load test on my apache webserver to see how many hits/sec it = could potentially handle ... after a little while the test would start = failing with bad byte count errors and I noticed that if I went on the = web server itself and tried to make a tcp connection to anywhere I got = an error like this: ftp: socket: No buffer space available Is there only a limited number of tcp connections that can be made from = a box at any given time or what? ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C14AAE.53DAD5E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi,

I'm curious what causes this exactly... = I noticed=20 this occurring when I used a load test on my apache webserver to see how = many=20 hits/sec it could potentially handle ... after a little while the test = would=20 start failing with bad byte count errors and I noticed that if I went on = the web=20 server itself and tried to make a tcp connection to anywhere I got an = error like=20 this:

ftp: socket: No buffer space = available

Is there only a limited number of tcp = connections=20 that can be made from a box at any given time or=20 what?

------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C14AAE.53DAD5E0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message