From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 3 21:29: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hilfy.ece.cmu.edu (HILFY.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 028B137B41C; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 21:29:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net (root@VPN59.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.138.59]) by hilfy.ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.8.8) with ESMTP id g345SRU23069; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 00:28:31 -0500 (EST) Received: (from allbery@localhost) by rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g345SKO90707; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 00:28:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net: allbery set sender to allbery@ece.cmu.edu using -f Subject: Re: Heads up, a bit: ephemeral port range changes From: "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Cc: Mike Silbersack , Garance A Drosihn , stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020404011807.GC93977@madman.nectar.cc> References: <20020404005838.P60053-100000@patrocles.silby.com> <20020404011807.GC93977@madman.nectar.cc> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 04 Apr 2002 00:28:20 -0500 Message-Id: <1017898100.86889.2.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 20:18, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:07:13AM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > The ephemeral port range determines the maximum number of simultaneous > > outbound connections that you can have. As pointed out in a PR (I don't > > recall the # offhand), our low limit was probably the reason that FreeBSD > > ran out of steam before the other OSes in the sysadmin benchmark last > > year. > > This falls in the same category as any other system tuning for > questionable benchmarks. It is certainly not a compelling reason to > break things. So, how many other -stable users already change this via sysctl because the default is too low? I do; and the default seems ridiculously low to me. > And it is a good change --- for a new operating system release. The idea of deferring a change like this to the next release instead of letting it get some testing first seems Bad to me. -- brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message