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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2007-12-16 13:57:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2007-12-16 13:57:00 +0000 |
| commit | 47433403b85894ffeef7db9084e143eb103802fa (patch) | |
| tree | f1fd09827bcc9478b7868da179ca0a115eb4f093 /man7/tcp.7 | |
| parent | c7496b0388ae7621a4612b9eabc32bfea83ba043 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-47433403b85894ffeef7db9084e143eb103802fa.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/man7/tcp.7 b/man7/tcp.7 index 365d654dba..3af5b6daa9 100644 --- a/man7/tcp.7 +++ b/man7/tcp.7 @@ -444,7 +444,8 @@ in the system. .I min - minimum size of the receive buffer used by each TCP socket. The default value is 4K, and is lowered to -PAGE_SIZE bytes in low-memory systems. +.B PAGE_SIZE +bytes in low-memory systems. This value is used to ensure that in memory pressure mode, allocations below this size will still succeed. @@ -537,7 +538,7 @@ corresponds to approximately 180 seconds. Enable RFC\ 1323 TCP timestamps. .TP .BR tcp_tw_recycle " (Boolean; default: disabled)" -Enable fast recycling of TIME-WAIT sockets. +Enable fast recycling of TIME_WAIT sockets. Enabling this option is not recommended since this causes problems when working with NAT (Network Address Translation). @@ -545,7 +546,7 @@ with NAT (Network Address Translation). .\" The following is from 2.6.12: Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt .TP .BR tcp_tw_reuse " (Boolean; default: disabled)" -Allow to reuse TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is +Allow to reuse TIME_WAIT sockets for new connections when it is safe from protocol viewpoint. It should not be changed without advice/request of technical experts. |