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Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 18952] New: The mount of SYN retries is not
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:10:46 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Yuri Chislov <yuri@itinteg.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:07:06 +0200

>   It looks like the behavior changed in 2.6.32. 2.6.32 and up, uses some 
> calculation instead of a direct definition of the retries number, that makes it 
> harder to achieve the necessary system behavior.
> 
>  The default behavior of the system changed completely
> (the old default connect timeout was ~ 180 seconds, while the new one is ~21 
> sec). 
> 
> The new behavior invalidates the kernel documentation and tcp man page.
> 
> It's not possible to set a connect timeout > 25 sec in the applications while 
> using the default values in /proc. 
> 
> From my view point is regression.

Agreed, Damian you have to fix this.

Otherwise I'm reverting all of your Revert Backoff commits.