Re: setsockopt(RCVBUF) Invalid argument with 2.1.103

Jes Degn Soerensen (jds@kom.auc.dk)
03 Jun 1998 09:51:25 +0200


>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

>> Right now I consider the default max values in 2.1.x as being
>> insufficient, I would like to set the max default to 200000 or
>> something similar as is dojne by most other UNIX vendors (ok SGI
>> allows you to use sane values >> 200000 ;-)

Alan> You would consider them insufficient given you are running
Alan> 800Mbits/second 64K packet hippi. The defaults are right for
Alan> normal users - which is what defaults should be

I do not plan to change the default {r,w}mem setting but I would like
to change their max settings. A) it doesn't hurt to allow 200K
buffers, b) a lot of software actually tries to set this (nfsd is one
if I remember correctly).

Jes

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