From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 4 13:22:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7645214D47 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:22:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA05665; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 22:21:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: dg@root.com Cc: "John R. LoVerso" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 04 Jun 1999 13:13:05 PDT." <199906042013.NAA29836@implode.root.com> Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 22:21:04 +0200 Message-ID: <5663.928527664@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199906042013.NAA29836@implode.root.com>, David Greenman writes: >>> 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. Oops, you're right. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message