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-rw-r--r--share/man/man7/tuning.73
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diff --git a/share/man/man7/tuning.7 b/share/man/man7/tuning.7
index 80df23f947a1..3f120f94390d 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/tuning.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/tuning.7
@@ -424,7 +424,8 @@ sysctls are of particular interest if you are running network intensive
applications.
This controls the amount of send and receive buffer space
allowed for any given TCP connection.
-The default is 16K.
+The default sending buffer is 32k; the default receiving buffer
+is 64k.
You can often
improve bandwidth utilization by increasing the default at the cost of
eating up more kernel memory for each connection.