Stephen Hemminger wrote: > You probably need to increase the maximum socket buffer > sizes. Linux defaults are conservative to avoid running > servers out of memory. > > http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/tcptune/#Linux Thanks for the great link! It kept me up all night. I managed to crash the server running out of memory. Don't ask what numbers I used, I just went overboard. I played with these numbers before, but never imagined that their scale would be in the millions. Could you suggest sane values for 2.4/2.6 on a 100mbit link? Thanks! -- Al - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html