Why does "Invaild argument" error output when setup net.ipv4.tcp_rmem?

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Issue

There is error outputting when setup net.ipv4.tcp_rmem by following step:

# cat /etc/sysctl.conf 

net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = "4096 873800 1747600"
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = "4096 873800 1747600"
net.ipv4.tcp_mem = "2048000 2048000 2048000"
# sysctl -p 

error: "Invalid argument" setting key "net.ipv4.tcp_rmem"
error: "Invalid argument" setting key "net.ipv4.tcp_wmem"
error: "Invalid argument" setting key "net.ipv4.tcp_mem"

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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