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Date:      Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:04:46 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Dmitriy Fedorov <dfed@octet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ENOBUF socket error
Message-ID:  <20000629090446.I275@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <DLEOJAGMFHCBGAAKNNELOEDGCAAA.dfed@octet.com>; from dfed@octet.com on Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:26:07AM -0400
References:  <DLEOJAGMFHCBGAAKNNELOEDGCAAA.dfed@octet.com>

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* Dmitriy Fedorov <dfed@octet.com> [000629 08:19] wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> i installed FreeBSD 3.4 with Dante SOCKS daemon for serving ICQ on user's
> workstations.
> When users begin to work intensively with ICQ, many sockets in TIME_WAIT
> state appear
> (which is normal). But when the number of these sockets reaches number about
> 1024,
> server begin dropping TCP connections, ifconfig -a shows ENOBUFS error - "no
> buffer space available".I think this is becase of limitation in number if
> simultaneous connections
> to server or may be TCP queue needs to be adjusted. Are there any kernel
> parameters
> which i need to change ?

Have a look at 'man 8 loader' several tunables are mentioned, you can
also compile them into your kernel, the easiest way is to simply
raise 'maxusers'

-Alfred


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