netdev - Re: Something hitting my total number of connections to the server

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Date:   Tue, 22 Aug 2017 10:50:42 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:     Akshat Kakkar <akshat.1984@...il.com>,
        David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: Something hitting my total number of connections to the server

On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 10:46 -0700, David Ahern wrote:
> On 8/22/17 10:44 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > Willem wrote this doc in 2013, before we finally went back to 1000.
> > 
> > We should update this doc.
> 
> 
> And these too:
> 
> $ egrep -r netdev_max_backlog Documentation/networking/
> Documentation/networking//cxgb.txt:      sysctl -w
> net.core.netdev_max_backlog=300000
> Documentation/networking//ixgb.txt:net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 300000

Yes, whoever wrote this had no idea of the implications I guess.