On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:18:31 -0600 (CST), Mike Silbersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > We still need to cap the number of sockets somehow, as it would be bad for > > sockets to consume all memory. > > There's already a cap: maxfiles. > > -GAWollman That would end up being a reduction below the current value; right now sockets > maxfiles with large maxuser values. Whether or not this is a necessary differential, I'm not sure. (With TIME_WAIT and FIN_WAIT_2 sockets, I believe that maxsockets should exceed maxfiles.) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message