Subject: Re: Fw: Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm2

From: Indrek Kruusa <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 19:14:20 +0300

Herbert Xu wrote:

>Andrew Morton <[email-masked]> wrote:
>  
>
>>dmesg is not clean though:
>>
>>TCP: time wait bucket table overflow
>>TCP: time wait bucket table overflow
>>TCP: time wait bucket table overflow
>>printk: 392 messages suppressed.
>>
>>What I did:
>>- "bombing" httpd with JMeter (from another computer)
>>    
>>
>
>This is normal.  The number of TCP connections held by
>your server in the TIME_WAIT state is exceeding
>tcp_max_tw_buckets.
>
>Check out tcp(7) on what this means and how it may or
>may not be a problem for you.
>  
>
Wait a moment.... with kernel 2.6.10-oci7 (Sam) load average is 3-4x 
lower and system does not reach this tcp_max_tw_buckets limit. If it is 
desired I can do more tests with different kernels.

Indrek