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To: Pete Shipley <shipley@dis.org>
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Subject: Re: TCP listen queue length: 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Nov 95 19:12:41 PST."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 20:59:52 -0800
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>Does anyone know how to adjust the listen queue length under FreeBSD 2.* .
>
>under SunOS you can do it with:
>
>	/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_conn_req_max 64
>
>    and BSDI can be done with:
>
>	bpatch -l -r somaxconn 32
>
>this is a useful thing WWW servers to speed them up.

   The default for this in FreeBSD was recently increased to 32. It should be
changed into a sysctl tunable, however. For now, you can adjust it by changing
SOMAXCONN in /sys/sys/socket.h.

-DG