Socket problem in Fedora Core 2
Bob Chiodini
rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Thu Sep 8 14:10:56 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 14:58 +0200, Andreas Storm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My setup: Fedora Core 2 with 2.6.10-1.771_FC2smp kernel.
>
> I'm currently developing a simulator for load testing
> which needs to handle around 40-50K connections. A mixture of TCP and UDP.
>
> I changed the amount of file descriptors to 64000
> with ulimit -n 64000 as root.
>
> But when I run and reach around 27000 TCP connections
> my application stops and dmesg writes the following:
>
> "out of socket memory" several times.
>
> I wonder what is the problem and how it can be fixed. Didn't have any luck at the mail archive or google.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Br,
> /Andreas
>
>
>
Andreas,
I found the "out of socket memory" in tcp_timer.c. The implication that
the sysctl variable net.ipv4.tcp_max_orphans controls the limit (among
other things). On FC3 this is set to 65536. What is it in FC2?
Bob...
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