Re: network outages

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

woods%planix.ca@localhost ("Greg A. Woods") writes:

>It seems horrible for the network stack to fail to open a TCP connection
>if the tuning is wrong, and surely other protocols won't mind if it is
>bigger than they need.

It's a stopgap to prevent programs from allocating socket buffers that exhaust
kernel memory.

Not sure if you want to automatically raise that, when you, as the system
administrator, make a "wrong tuning".