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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!agate!theos.com!riscan.riscan.com!van.istar!ott.istar!istar.net!winternet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!news2.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc, Subject: Re: [Q] kernel help on tcp and dbx Date: 4 Jun 1996 20:37:34 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4p26qe$n21@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4okasc$ra3@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20696 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1122 cjk@omedsrvb.omed.pitt.edu (Carl Joel Kuzmich) wrote: > I was getting some help from a dec rep on one of my alpha boxes and had > me increase "somaxcomm" using the dbx - k command. > > My question is how can I do this from within bsd???? It has traditionally been hard-coded into the kernel (to the value defined in <sys/socket.h> which was directly used by the kernel). FreeBSD has recently made it a tunable parameter that can also be tuned via the sysctl interface (and defaults to 128 now as opposed to 5 in traditional BSD's). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)