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Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:33:38 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Getting rid of maxsockets.
Message-ID:  <200203202233.g2KMXcC61425@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020320145723.X55299-100000@patrocles.silby.com>
References:  <200203202026.g2KKQch60289@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20020320145723.X55299-100000@patrocles.silby.com>

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<<On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:01:01 -0600 (CST), Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> said:

> 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.)

My point was that it's not necessary to enforce a limit on sockets,
specifically, because maxfiles (and user resource limits) will keep
users from opening too many sockets.  We should probably look to
templating closed TCP connections, since they don't actually need a
socket at all (or most of the PCB).

-GAWollman


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