Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 14:47:11 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Chad Wagner <cmwagner@tsunami.sodre.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building a web server... Message-ID: <199804032247.OAA07396@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Apr 1998 17:12:38 EST." <199804032212.RAA22974@tsunami.sodre.net>
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>I am working on building a web server that runs under FreeBSD 2.2.6, and I was >wondering what can be done in the case of 'port clogging', i.e. too many >requests to the port and it is backlogged due to this. What can be done to >alleviate this? It seems like a TCP implementation issue, but almost every >UNIX OS does it this way, obviously for a reason which is unknown to me. The usual solution to this is to increase the listen queue depth. There is a kernel limit (kern.somaxconn or kern.ipc.somaxconn depending on which version of FreeBSD), and of course the value passed into listen() needs to also be increased. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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