On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 02:03:37PM +0400, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
> My servers had died every 12h and I spend lots of time to solve problem,
> I hope the result of my work is interesting for community.
>
> The main reason of server fault is overloading of dynamic routing table
> (netstat -nra | grep W3)
>
> Another point - the same software running on non-Intel server
> (no-name PC with AHA SCSI and DEC net card) works without problems.
>
>
> I.
> Behavior of dynamic routing table controlled by sysctl variables:
> net.inet.ip.rtexpire
> net.inet.ip.rtminexpire
> net.inet.ip.rtmaxcache
>
> IMHO, default values of this variables should be changed to make heavy
> loaded
> servers more reliable or at least it should be documented.
I believe the reason those are sysctl's, instead of hard-wired kernel
values, is that they be made tweakable (/etc/sysctl.conf comes to mind).
As to documentation, yeah, that's a common problem for all the sysctl's :(
G'luck,
Peter
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