Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:01:01 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting rid of maxsockets. Message-ID: <20020320145723.X55299-100000@patrocles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <200203202026.g2KKQch60289@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:18:31 -0600 (CST), Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> said: > > > We still need to cap the number of sockets somehow, as it would be bad for > > sockets to consume all memory. > > There's already a cap: maxfiles. > > -GAWollman That would end up being a reduction below the current value; right now sockets > maxfiles with large maxuser values. Whether or not this is a necessary differential, I'm not sure. (With TIME_WAIT and FIN_WAIT_2 sockets, I believe that maxsockets should exceed maxfiles.) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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