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@@ -530,12 +530,16 @@ The default value of 256 is increased to
1024 when the memory present in the system is adequate or
greater (>= 128Mb), and reduced to 128 for those systems with
very low memory (<= 32Mb).
-It is recommended that if this
-needs to be increased above 1024, TCP_SYNQ_HSIZE in
+
+Prior to Linux 2.6.20,
+.\" commit 72a3effaf633bcae9034b7e176bdbd78d64a71db
+it was recommended that if this needed to be increased above 1024,
+the size of the SYNACK hash table (TCP_SYNQ_HSIZE) in
.I include/net/tcp.h
be modified to keep
TCP_SYNQ_HSIZE*16<=tcp_max_syn_backlog, and the kernel be
-recompiled.
+recompiled. In Linux 2.6.20, the fixed sized TCP_SYNQ_HSIZE was removed
+in favour of dynamic sizing.
.TP
.IR tcp_max_tw_buckets " (integer; default: see below; since Linux 2.4)"
.\" Since 2.3.41