From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: orphan sockets Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:31:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20110708.093155.1103063166626789067.davem@davemloft.net> References: <6fa7e62e85e1e2fd069aa9cbf307737a@visp.net.lb> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: denys@visp.net.lb, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: daniel.baluta@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:60152 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750764Ab1GHQcI (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jul 2011 12:32:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Daniel Baluta Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 19:28:27 +0300 > I can try to make a patch for this if you want. No need, I'll take care of this, thanks: -------------------- net: Fix default in docs for tcp_orphan_retries. Default should be listed at 8 instead of 7. Reported-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index d3d653a..bfe9242 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged. See tcp_retries2 for more details. - The default value is 7. + The default value is 8. If your machine is a loaded WEB server, you should think about lowering this value, such sockets may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans. -- 1.7.6