About kern.ipc.somaxconn and netstat

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 01:33:50 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Efraín Déctor <efraindector at motumweb.com>wrote:

> Hello.
>
> We have a webserver using FreeBSD, we read about tunning
> kern.ipc.somaxconn (
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-kernel-limits.html)
> so the OS can handle all the connections. Is there a way to know how many
> connections are established in a certain moment?. I know about netstat(1)
> but is there any other command that we can use to know the exact amount of
> how many connections are established?.
>

sockstat(1)

There are other sysctl's to view connections in a particular state such
as net.inet.tcp.pcblist:



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Adam Vande More


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