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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi@remlab.net>
Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] socket: increase default maximum listen queue length
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 10:36:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1300613784.2831.142.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201103201104.42183.remi@remlab.net>

Le dimanche 20 mars 2011 à 11:04 +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont a écrit :
> Le dimanche 20 mars 2011 10:30:17 Eric Dumazet, vous avez écrit :
> > 
> > But application also needs to use : listen(fd, 8192)
> 
> Application should pass INT_MAX anyway, unless it has a specific limit, e.g. 
> it can only handle one connection at time.
> 

You'll be surprised how few of them do that actually

ss -a | head
State      Recv-Q Send-Q      Local Address:Port          Peer Address:Port   
LISTEN     0      8                       *:imaps                    *:*       
LISTEN     0      8                       *:pop3s                    *:*       
LISTEN     0      50                      *:mysql                    *:*       
LISTEN     0      8                       *:pop3                     *:*       
LISTEN     0      8                       *:imap2                    *:*       
LISTEN     0      511                     *:www                      *:*       


Yes, Apache itself uses 511 as its default listenbacklog

You'll need to change 

ListenBacklog 8192




  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-20  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-20  1:50 [PATCH] socket: increase default maximum listen queue length Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2011-03-20  4:41 ` David Miller
2011-03-20 11:59   ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2011-03-20  8:30 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-20  9:04   ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2011-03-20  9:36     ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2011-03-20 11:39   ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2011-03-20 11:55     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-20 12:14       ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2011-03-20 23:04         ` [PATCH 1/2] " Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2011-03-20 23:04           ` [PATCH 2/2] socket: add minimum listen queue length sysctl Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2011-03-21  7:36             ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-20 23:09           ` [PATCH 1/2] socket: increase default maximum listen queue length David Miller
2011-03-20 23:52             ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2011-03-21  0:18               ` David Miller
2011-03-20 23:57             ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer

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