[ECOS] Sockets and files

[Laurie Gellatly]

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> From: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org [mailto:ecos-discuss-
> owner@ecos.sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Laurie Gellatly
> Sent: Thursday, 27 November 2008 7:59 AM
> To: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
> Subject: [ECOS] Sockets and files
> 
> Hi All,
> My eCos project with the FreeBSD stack is undergoing some more real
> world tests (put into a more typical network environment).
> The network related threads are a web server and an SNMP agent.
> Lately I've noticed that the web server thread does not accept
> connections for about 1 minute after startup.
> It used to accept connections within a few seconds.
> To avoid running out of sockets, (which seems to be a recurring problem
> I've seen in this forum)
> I've had to double CYGPKG_NET_MAXSOCKETS and then increase
> CYGPKG_NET_MEM_USAGE to
> larger than its default calculation and change CYGPKG_NET_MEMPOOL_SIZE
> and CYGPKG_NET_MBUFS_SIZE to their new defaults.
> Initially this did not help until I also increased FOPEN_MAX,
> CYGNUM_FILEIO_NFILE and CYGNUM_FILEIO_NFD to be almost
> the same as the number of sockets.
> 
> I'd like to understand the relationship between these values (sockets
> and file opens) so I can set these values
> by more than just trial and error and possibly find why the 1 minute
> delay occurs.
> 
> Can someone point me at some documentation that explains these
> relationships or offer advice?
> 
Just a quick update, the 1 minute delay was being imposed by my switch.
At least that's one solved.

Thanks			...Laurie:{)


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