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Diffstat (limited to 'man7/tcp.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/tcp.7 | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man7/tcp.7 b/man7/tcp.7 index d91c6534f1..d983a8f9a2 100644 --- a/man7/tcp.7 +++ b/man7/tcp.7 @@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ the orphaned connection is reset and a warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent simple denial-of-service attacks. Lowering this limit is not recommended. Network conditions might require you to increase the number of -orphans allowed, but note that each orphan can eat up to ~64\ kB +orphans allowed, but note that each orphan can eat up to \(ti64\ kB of unswappable memory. The default initial value is set equal to the kernel parameter NR_FILE. This initial default is adjusted depending on the memory in the system. |