Re: SOMAXCONN (was Re: Solaris source code)

ncm@zembu.com (Nathan Myers) writes:
> All the OSes we know of fold it to 128, currently.  We can jump it 
> to 10240 now, or later when there are 20GHz CPUs.

> If you want to make it more complicated, it would be more useful to 
> be able to set the value lower for runtime environments where PG is 
> competing for OS resources with another daemon that deserves higher 
> priority.

Hmm, good point.  Does anyone have a feeling for the amount of kernel
resources that are actually sucked up by an accept-queue entry?  If 128
is the customary limit, is it actually worth worrying about whether
we are setting it to 128 vs. something smaller?
        regards, tom lane