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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newshost.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Where is tcp/ip backlog parameter set in source? Date: 17 Sep 1995 04:02:47 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 15 Message-ID: <43g6l7$2tl@reason.cdrom.com> References: <JOE.95Sep15193428@ns.via.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: joe@ns.via.net X-URL: news:JOE.95Sep15193428@ns.via.net joe@ns.via.net (Joe McGuckin) wrote: >I was reading a tech report from Sun that mentioned that one way to >increase the performance of web servers was to increase the default size >of the backlog value (currently hard set to 5) used in the listen() system >call. Hmmmmm.. Looks to be /usr/src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c. Our backlog is set here: /sys/sys/socket.h:#define SOMAXCONN 32 I agree that this should be a MIB variable, tweakable with sysctl... I'll look into it. -- Jordan