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From: aad@nwnet.net (Anthony D'Atri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: kernel tuning for netscape www server
Date: 30 Jan 1996 22:08:45 -0800
Organization: NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA
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Message-ID: <4en11d$ocn@olympus.nwnet.net>
References: <4eig4b$r9@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>
Reply-To: aad@nwnet.net
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>Are there any things that can be "tuned" in the kernel that will improve 
>performance of my www server.

Some people recommend increasing the backlog queue size for listen() under
SunOS 5 for this sort of application.  I've jacked up somaxconn under
BSDI 2.01 on a new nntp-client server in hopes that it'll help here.