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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:30:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Craig Shrimpton <craigs@venus.os.com>
To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Can someone tell me what this kernel message means?
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On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Garrett A. Wollman wrote:

> 
> It is a number that starts at .75*(3600 s) and goes down by 25% every
> ten minutes until there are either less than 128 unreferenced entries
> in the per-host cache, or the value gets down to 10 s.  You need to
> think about how many different systems regularly start TCP connections
> to your machine and what sort of performance-memory tradeoff you want
> to make, and adjust these MIB variables accordingly:
> 

Is there any rules of thumb for this?  Like a per connection guideline?  
My system runs INN and could have as many as 30 or 40 NNTP connections at 
a time.

Thanks,

Craig