eric@osiris.UUCP (Eric Bergan) (05/13/86)
We are developing a system that will be primarily dedicated to servers for the network. Currently, the "listen" call limits the size of the backlog queue to 5. This is done by a #define of SOMAXCONN. I would be interested in knowing the relative pros and cons of increasing SOMAXCONN, since this occasionally causes one of our clients to fail to connect. In looking at the code, the only place SOMAXCONN is used is in a "min" statement with the "backlog" parameter. Does anyone know why 5 was chosen? Will we consume massive memory, or destroy our network throughput if we reset it to, say 16? -- eric ...!seismo!umcp-cs!aplcen!osiris!eric