https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119351 Bug ID: 119351 Summary: misleading information about buffer size limits in tcp(7) Product: Documentation Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P1 Component: man-pages Assignee: documentation_man-pages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reporter: nyh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Regression: No The tcp(7) discussion on SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF contains the statement that: "The maximum sizes for socket buffers declared via the SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF mechanisms are limited by the values in the /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max and /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max files." However, other sources seem to suggest that the files /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem and /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem (mentioned in the previous paragraph) actually contain the relevant limits (the third value in each file), while the core/ files are only relevant to other protocols. This is actually explained in tcp(7), down in the "tcp_rmem" section of the "/proc interfaces". -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
