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TCP sysctl documentation: tcp_moderate_rcvbuf

PATCH In review John Heffner 2 participants 2 messages Feb 27, 2007

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PATCH 1/3 TCP sysctl documentation: tcp_moderate_rcvbuf

Document sysctl tcp_moderate_rcvbuf.

Signed-off-by John Heffner <[email protected]>

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commit 4c5fd9d3a9ea8b939aed1afda2ac0fc54e3df592
tree c25c2fd01e076fbb7356a8c37d06d2e22c60f263
parent aef8811abbc9249a2bd59bd2331bbe523df05d17
author John Heffner <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:44:58 -0500 committer John Heffner <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:44:58 -0500

 Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt |    6 ++++++
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Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +6 -0
index a0f6842..a9ad96b 100644
@@ -243,6 +243,12 @@ tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
 	Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available
 	memory.
 
+tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN
+	If set, TCP performs receive buffer autotuning, attempting to
+	automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to
+	match the size required by the path for full throughput.  Enabled by
+	default.
+
 tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
 	How may times to retry before killing TCP connection, closed
 	by our side. Default value 7 corresponds to ~50sec-16min