From: David S. Miller Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 16:31:31 +0000 (-0700) Subject: net: Fix default in docs for tcp_orphan_retries. X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~3680^2~5062^2~4 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=06b8fc5d308b15e853a68c3d4854fb2ac33db867;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git net: Fix default in docs for tcp_orphan_retries. Default should be listed at 8 instead of 7. Reported-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index d3d653a5f9b9..bfe924217f24 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged. See tcp_retries2 for more details. - The default value is 7. + The default value is 8. If your machine is a loaded WEB server, you should think about lowering this value, such sockets may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.