c++ - How to determine the value of socket listen() backlog parameter?

Question

How should I determine what to use for a listening socket's backlog parameter? Is it a problem to simply specify a very large number?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/114874/how-to-determine-the-value-of-socket-listen-backlog-parameter

Answer 1

From the docs:

A value for the backlog of SOMAXCONN is a special constant that instructs the underlying service provider responsible for socket s to set the length of the queue of pending connections to a maximum reasonable value.