From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 04:34:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA02438 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:21:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA02350 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:21:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.okbmei.msk.su (ns.okbmei.msk.su [194.190.170.40]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id XAA21858 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 23:00:30 -0800 Received: from kiae.UUCP by ns.okbmei.msk.su with UUCP id AA03341 (5.67c8/IDA-1.5); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:46:59 +0300 Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by sovcom.kiae.su with SMTP id AA06389 (5.65.kiae-1 for ); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:37:29 +0300 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA01029 Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:55:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA00992 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:55:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.okbmei.msk.su (ns.okbmei.msk.su [194.190.170.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA00985 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:55:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from kiae.UUCP by ns.okbmei.msk.su with UUCP id AA01602 (5.67c8/IDA-1.5); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 05:43:50 +0300 Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by sovcom.kiae.su with SMTP id AA23111 (5.65.kiae-1 for ); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 05:21:09 +0300 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA28121 Thu, 7 Mar 1996 14:52:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA27579 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 14:51:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.okbmei.msk.su (ns.okbmei.msk.su [194.190.170.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA27529 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 14:51:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from kiae.UUCP by ns.okbmei.msk.su with UUCP id AA29306 (5.67c8/IDA-1.5); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 01:40:54 +0300 Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by sovcom.kiae.su with SMTP id AA24107 (5.65.kiae-1 for ); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 01:21:19 +0300 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA06140 Thu, 7 Mar 1996 12:32:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA05917 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 12:29:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from venus.os.com (venus.os.com [199.232.136.71]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA05910 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 12:29:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from craigs@localhost) by venus.os.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA00878; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:30:46 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:30:45 -0500 (EST) From: Craig Shrimpton To: "Garrett A. Wollman" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can someone tell me what this kernel message means? In-Reply-To: <9603071836.AA06351@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Charset: KOI8-R X-Char-Esc: 29 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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