From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 22 13:46:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA21064 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Feb 1997 13:46:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from silver.sms.fi (silver.sms.fi [194.111.122.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA21053 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 1997 13:46:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from pete@localhost) by silver.sms.fi (8.8.5/8.7.3) id XAA00595; Sat, 22 Feb 1997 23:46:21 +0200 (EET) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 23:46:21 +0200 (EET) Message-Id: <199702222146.XAA00595@silver.sms.fi> From: Petri Helenius To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: socket buffers Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm running an application that makes heavy use of UDP datagrams and even when the box is less than half loaded (CPU is 50% idle) I'm losing a lot of datagrams (they are received on the box but they are dropped at somewhere in the system level:) udp: 38518974 datagrams received 0 with incomplete header 0 with bad data length field 0 with bad checksum 21 dropped due to no socket 1832 broadcast/multicast datagrams dropped due to no socket 13319898 dropped due to full socket buffers 0 not for hashed pcb 25197223 delivered 238990767 datagrams output Since they are marked dropped due to full socket buffers the question is how do I increase the buffers? Pete