accept() failed (53: Software caused connection abort)

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 04:10:52PM +0200, Adam PAPAI wrote:

> Maxim Dounin wrote:
> >Hello!
> >
> 
> >Maxqlen is maximum listen socket queue length (the queue of
> >connections completed handshake but not yet accept()'ed by
> >application), and FreeBSD will reset new connections if it's
> >exhausted (or will just drop them if you have
> >net.inet.tcp.syncache.rst_on_sock_fail=0).
> >
> >If you see qlen greater than maxqlen it means that your app can't
> >cope with load.  If this happens for a fraction of a second due to
> >connection bursts - this may be ok and you just need to increase
> >queue length to compensate bursts.
> 
> The question is now: how to increase the queue length under FreeBSD.
> I cannot find the config value in sysctl.

System limit is kern.ipc.somaxconn.  But as far as I remember you 
have 4096 queue for nginx, so it looks like you've already tuned 
it. :)

The question is how to tune it in your backend, but there is no 
simple answer: this depends on backend.  E.g. php-fpm should use 
kern.ipc.somaxconn as seen on process startup by default and have 
an option ("backlog") to tune it.

But again: as long as you've been able to see overflows, just 
increasing listen queue isn't likely to help.  You have to add 
more backends.

Maxim Dounin