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Date:      Tue, 4 Jun 2002 22:20:48 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Nguyen-Tuong Long Le <le@cs.unc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with SYN cache in FreeBSD 4.5
Message-ID:  <20020604221848.J42854-100000@patrocles.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10206042250540.19770-100000@capefear.cs.unc.edu>

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On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Nguyen-Tuong Long Le wrote:

> Here is the output of "netstat -La"
>
> Current listen queue sizes (qlen/incqlen/maxqlen)
> Proto Listen         Local Address
> tcp4  3/0/8192       *.6789
>
>
> I wonder why the listen queue overflows when there are so few
> connections in the queue. The number of listen queue overflows
> is equal to the number of syncache aborts. Is it a coincidence
> or are they related?
>
> Thanks,
> -- long

It appears that the primary reason a syncache abort would occur is because
the system has run out of sockets.  Is kern.ipc.numopensockets approaching
kern.ipc.maxsockets?

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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