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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 0e6653471c0e..8d4ad1d1ae26 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -408,11 +408,14 @@ tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER up to ~64K of unswappable memory. tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER - Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which have not - received an acknowledgment from connecting client. + Maximal number of remembered connection requests (SYN_RECV), + which have not received an acknowledgment from connecting client. + This is a per-listener limit. 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. + Remember to also check /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn + A SYN_RECV request socket consumes about 304 bytes of memory. tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously. |