On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 01:59:13AM -0400, Nguyen-Tuong Long Le wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Our group has a proprietary web server that can handle 10000 requests/s
> under FreeBSD 4.3 release. We recently upgraded our system to 4.5 and got
> very poor performance. While the web server runs, I see lots of messages
> similar to the following on the console
> "Limiting open port RST response from 1068 to 200 packets per second".
> 
> The problem seems to be related to the syncache implementation
> that drops incoming SYN segments. 

4.5-RELEASE included a new feature, syncookies try turning it off:
net.inet.tcp.syncookies: 0 

you might also need to patch the kernel:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02%3A20.syncache.asc

--clark

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