Re: [squid-users] squid benchmarking and TCP MSL

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Prakash Khemani wrote:

>
> On the web page http://www.squid-cache.org/Benchmarking/Surrogate07/
> there is this following statement :
>
> "The system runs FreeBSD (4.1?). To get past ~350 req/sec, I lowered the
> TCP MSL to 15 seconds.".
>
> What is TCP MSL? And how do I set it to "15 seconds" on a FreeBSD 4.4
> system??

You can change TCP MSL to 15 seconds via sysctl:

        # sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.msl=15000

Duane W.
Received on Tue Jul 30 2002 - 09:33:03 MDT