Possible minimum tunable value for tcp_retries2 and tcp_syn_retries
Issue
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Customer wants to reduce the value for some of network parameters as shown below.
net.ipv4.tcp_retries2 = 2 net.ipv4.tcp_syn_retries = 2 -
They try this to reduce the replacement time from one server to the other when hang is happen.
Environment
- OS : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 7
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