On Tuesday 13 April 2010 06:15:35 Mark Jackson wrote:
> Is there any way to limit the # tcp connections under Busybox ?
>
> I've tried ...
>
> echo 8 > /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn
>
> ... but I can still open 10 ssh sessions, as well as a web server.
>
> I know I could run iptables, but I was looking for a much lower level
> solution (with a smaller resource footprint).
>
> Any clues ?
This is really a kernel question rather than a busybox question, but looking
at the kernel source, somaxconn is the default number of queued connections a
listening socket will accept.
>From net/socket.c:
somaxconn = sock_net(sock->sk)->core.sysctl_somaxconn;
if ((unsigned)backlog > somaxconn)
backlog = somaxconn;
You need to ask kernel guys about this. Maybe [email protected]?
Rob
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Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds
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