Re: (ITS#6234) CONFIGURABLE TCP BUFFERS IN SLAPD FEATURE REQUEST

[masarati@aero.polimi.it]

Your message was unreadable, you should use text form for messages sent 
to the ITS.

In any case, according to many sources, the default values for TCP 
buffers can be pretty small.  Usually, they can be configured 
system-wide at the OS level (see tcp(7)), or even auto-tuned.

Personally, I have no objections in optionally allowing to hard-set the 
buffer sizes to values one considers appropriate for the intended use of 
slapd.  Since the optimal size roughly depends on latency and bandwidth, 
this may probably need to be configured on a per-listener basis, actually.

However, in deployments where this problem becomes critical, usually 
hardware dedicated to slapd is used, so system-wide tuning (and 
auto-tuning) would be the preferred option anyway.  Manual setting 
should be used only when system-wide or auto-tuning is not available or 
accessible for some reason.

p.