seiwald@rtech.rtech.com (Christopher Seiwald) (02/12/90)
Can anyone tell me why SOMAXCONN (the maximum queue length specifiable by listen(2)) is so low? I have a server which simultaneously handles about NOFILE-3 clients (60 on a Sun), all of which would like to connect at the same time. BSD4.x and its decendants allow 5 clients to line up on the listen queue, and then refuse the rest. This leaves my client application to retry (with timeouts - blech). Is there any reason this non-configurable parameter hasn't been scaled up to somewhere around NOFILE? E-mail and I'll summarize. Christopher seiwald@rtech.com