Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 13:13:05 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: "John R. LoVerso" <loverso@sitaranetworks.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? Message-ID: <199906042013.NAA29836@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Jun 1999 21:27:57 %2B0200." <5419.928524477@critter.freebsd.dk>
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>> I don't support increasing the default timeout. That would cause problems >>for a lot of server systems that rely on the relatively short two hour default. >>The best I think you could do would be to increase it to something like >>12-24 hours as a default, but even that might be problematical. >> Actually, I think we should leave it alone. I don't mind if people add an >>rc.conf variable, however. > >First of all, our current default is not two hours, but to kill >after 4 hours idle followed by no response for 20min: > > net.inet.tcp.keepidle: 14400 > net.inet.tcp.keepintvl: 150 > >So anyone depending on two hours are screwed already. I believe the above numbers are in slowtimo ticks (500ms), so if you do the math, you come up with 2 hours. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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