Daniel Walton (zwwe@opti.cgi.net) wrote:
> I've been having a problem with a high volume Linux web server. This
> particular web server used to be a FreeBSD machine and I've been trying to
> successfully make the switch for some time now. I've been trying the 2.4
> development kernels as they come out and I've been tweaking the /proc
> filesystem variables but so far nothing seems to have fixed the
> problem. The problem is that I get "Out of socket memory" errors and the
> networking locks up...
FWIW, the code that prints this is in ipv4/tcp_timer.c
and it looks like it's a DoS attack countermeasure.
Looks like you can tune it with sysctl_tcp_max_orphans, among
other things. Here's the code from test11-pre4:
/* Do not allow orphaned sockets to eat all our resources.
* This is direct violation of TCP specs, but it is required
* to prevent DoS attacks. It is called when a retransmission timeout
* or zero probe timeout occurs on orphaned socket.
*
* Criterium is still not confirmed experimentally and may change.
* We kill the socket, if:
* 1. If number of orphaned sockets exceeds an administratively configured
* limit.
* 2. If we have strong memory pressure.
*/
static int tcp_out_of_resources(struct sock *sk, int do_reset)
{
struct tcp_opt *tp = &(sk->tp_pinfo.af_tcp);
int orphans = atomic_read(&tcp_orphan_count);
/* If peer does not open window for long time, or did not transmit
* anything for long time, penalize it. */
if ((s32)(tcp_time_stamp - tp->lsndtime) > 2*TCP_RTO_MAX || !do_reset)
orphans <<= 1;
/* If some dubious ICMP arrived, penalize even more. */
if (sk->err_soft)
orphans <<= 1;
if (orphans >= sysctl_tcp_max_orphans ||
(sk->wmem_queued > SOCK_MIN_SNDBUF &&
atomic_read(&tcp_memory_allocated) > sysctl_tcp_mem[2])) {
if (net_ratelimit())
printk(KERN_INFO "Out of socket memory\n");
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