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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/request_sock.c | 7 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index f049a1ca186f..589f2da5d545 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -282,11 +282,11 @@ tcp_max_ssthresh - INTEGER Default: 0 (off) tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER - Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which are - still did not receive an acknowledgment from connecting client. - Default value is 1024 for systems with more than 128Mb of memory, - and 128 for low memory machines. If server suffers of overload, - try to increase this number. + Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which have not + received an acknowledgment from connecting client. + The minimal value is 128 for low memory machines, and it will + increase in proportion to the memory of machine. + If server suffers from overload, try increasing this number. tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously. diff --git a/net/core/request_sock.c b/net/core/request_sock.c index 182236b2510a..9b570a6a33c5 100644 --- a/net/core/request_sock.c +++ b/net/core/request_sock.c @@ -26,10 +26,11 @@ * but then some measure against one socket starving all other sockets * would be needed. * - * It was 128 by default. Experiments with real servers show, that + * The minimum value of it is 128. Experiments with real servers show that * it is absolutely not enough even at 100conn/sec. 256 cures most - * of problems. This value is adjusted to 128 for very small machines - * (<=32Mb of memory) and to 1024 on normal or better ones (>=256Mb). + * of problems. + * This value is adjusted to 128 for low memory machines, + * and it will increase in proportion to the memory of machine. * Note : Dont forget somaxconn that may limit backlog too. */ int sysctl_max_syn_backlog = 256; |