Re: setsockopt(RCVBUF) Invalid argument with 2.1.103

Alexander Kjeldaas (astor@guardian.no)
Wed, 3 Jun 1998 22:24:55 +0200

On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 11:38:14AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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).
>

> Until Linus wakes up and allows a per user resource management
> facility and includes committed physical memory in it (which btw
> cleans up mlock and fixes the PTE problems) its not possible. In
> fact for 2.1.x even the existing defaults are unsafe and broken. It
> isnt however a networking problem really its a resource problem.

Do you have a design and/or a patch?

astor

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 Alexander Kjeldaas, Guardian Networks AS, Trondheim, Norway
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