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From: David Hill <davidh@wmis.net>
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Hello -

running the postfix command: postsuper -svv on a remote machine (via ssh) with a large queue caused the ssh connection to drop.

setting the sysctl variable net.inet.tcp.minmssoverload from 1000 to 0 fixes this.

I'm curious if 1000 is a good default value

Thanks
- David