On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:12:23AM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> I have a web server box that rarely gets a load average above 0.2. 
> Sometimes, it gets thrashed by a search bot that is ignoring the 
> robots.txt protocol and has a zillion queries open at a time. The 
> number of active queires seems to be limited by SOMAXCONN from 
> /usr/include/sys/socket.h. This causes my web server to start sending 
> back zero-length pages. Even when this happened, the load average was 
> 0.3, which is quite low.
> 
> Right now, it is set to:
> 
> #define SOMAXCONN       128
> 
> Is it safe for me to up that to, say, 512, and recompile the kernel? 
> If so, do I need to recompile anything else? I'd really rather have a 
> slow system than one that is sending out bad data.

I think you can do this, yes.
You'll have to recompile all what needs the bigger SOMAXCONN; I'd say at last
libc and the http server.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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