On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:01:01 -0600 (CST), Mike Silbersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > That would end up being a reduction below the current value; right now > > sockets > maxfiles with large maxuser values. Whether or not this is a > > necessary differential, I'm not sure. (With TIME_WAIT and FIN_WAIT_2 > > sockets, I believe that maxsockets should exceed maxfiles.) > > My point was that it's not necessary to enforce a limit on sockets, > specifically, because maxfiles (and user resource limits) will keep > users from opening too many sockets. We should probably look to > templating closed TCP connections, since they don't actually need a > socket at all (or most of the PCB). > > -GAWollman A TIME_WAIT cache or similar would be great, I agree. In that case, I'd think that you would want fewer sockets than files so that apps would always have free files available, even once sockets were depleted. In short, I think that it's advantageous having seperate limits, given that doing so is easy. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
