On 2010-09-09, Martin Pelik??n <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/9/9, Joe Warren-Meeks <[email protected]>: >> recv/send: >> net.inet.tcp.recvspace=16384 >> net.inet.udp.recvspace=41600 >> j...@f1:/home/joe> sysctl -a |grep send >> net.inet.tcp.sendspace=16384 >> net.inet.udp.sendspace=9216 >> >> >> Too low? What is a good value for them? > > It depends on what do you need. The defaults suffice for most cases, > but on our most loaded router we use tcp both 256k and udp send space > 65k (lots of dns). Just test it somewhere.
these affect traffic sourced from the box itself, *not* routed through it.
