Hello, This error ( $subj) started appearing today on my machine when I started experimenting with ircd. I wrote small program that makes many connections to the server,to see how much it can support. I increased the maximum number of file descriptors, and after 520 connectons, syslogd printed sth. about too many orphaned sockets... I then checked the source, saw that this is because the lower value in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_mem, and increased it 4 times... it then ran with 720 connectons and all the tcp stopped working, and started printing $subj... I increased the values 4 more times, and it ran to 824 connections. I'm using linux-2.4.0test10, on Celeron/300 with 192 MB ram. Suggestions? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/