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Cc: Imri Zvik <imriz@co.zahav.net.il>, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: very busy syslog server
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jaws wrote:

> What you need is more sockets available and a much larger sockbufs. 
> Try adjusting the following parameters:
> net.inet.udp.maxdgram
> net.inet.udp.recvspace

maxdgram has nothing to do with this on receiver side.
If you want to play with this parameter, try to REDUCE it on sender side.
But ignore this since the default is about 8-9KB, which is good enough.

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