netdev - Re: [net-next] net: More verbose message for too-many-orphans.

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Message-Id: <20100810.014801.212696050.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:48:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	greearb@...delatech.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next] net: More verbose message for too-many-orphans.

From: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Date: Mon,  9 Aug 2010 12:00:02 -0700

> The original message doesn't give much clue as to what
> is actually going wrong or how to fix it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>

Dumping a bunch of values obtainable via sysctl is pointless.

The only non-sysctl value you're dumping is 'orphans' and based upon
the sysctl values you can determine whether it made the check inside
of tcp_too_many_orphans() trigger, and in what way.

I'm not applying this, sorry.
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