Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Dec 1997 02:21:56 -0800 (PST) | From | Dean Gaudet <> | Subject | Re: networking / web perf probs |
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On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Marc Slemko wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > listen(sock, >0) > > > > should be changed (in the kernel) to be something like > > > > listen(sock, sizeof(input queue length)) > > I would think that is a bad idea. Some programs deliberately set a low > listen backlog and have valid reasons for it.
I'm curious, why? Admittedly I'm a fan of long listen queues because I've seen enough performance problems solved just by increasing the listen queue length.
> It is easy to fix any other programs that you have source for.
And if you don't have source, my two favourite tricks are to hack a shared lib, or to just hack the kernel itself. I've done both now to work around commercial linux programs that don't do quite what I want them to.
Dean
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