Listen queue guestion

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Tue Sep 16 08:08:52 UTC 2014


Hm, ok. It's a UNIX domain socket. I kinda thought those also obeyed the sysctl.

The sysctl has to be set -before- listen() is called.

Also, in BSD, if the listen queue parameter to listen() is < 0, it
defaults to the sysctl maximum.


-a


On 14 September 2014 23:44, Bram Van Steenlandt <bram at diomedia.be> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use python, here the parameters are (socket.AF_UNIX,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
>
> Bram
> op 14-09-14 23:05, Adrian Chadd schreef:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> What kind of sockets is it specifically using?
>>
>>
>> -a
>>
>>
>> On 14 September 2014 12:27, Bram Van Steenlandt <bram at diomedia.be> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm porting an plc automation system to freebsd and while doing so I got
>>> errors like these:
>>> sonewconn: pcb 0xfffff8000cecc870: Listen queue overflow: 76 already in
>>> queue awaiting acceptance
>>>
>>> With the help of netstat I've found the problem, 2 programs communicate
>>> with
>>> ipc file like sockets and the "client" was connecting too fast (it was
>>> connecting and disconnecting in a small for loop).
>>>
>>> Still, on linux this worked and there will be cases where I may bump in
>>> to
>>> this limit again (a lot of different programs communicate with one master
>>> program over ipc).
>>>
>>> I've found kern.ipc.somaxconn but this seems to be only for TCP
>>> connections.
>>>
>>> Is there a sysctl or kernel parameter that allows me to set this queue a
>>> bit
>>> larger ?
>>>
>>> Thx
>>> Bram
>>>
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