From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 11 9:35:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5403C37B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:35:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E4D8D43E09 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:35:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 11 Jul 2002 17:35:51 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 17:35:50 +0100 From: David Malone To: Larry Tai Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to find out the default FD_SETSIZE in Freebsd-4.5 stable? Message-ID: <20020711163550.GA52376@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 05:05:59PM -0700, Larry Tai wrote: > Is there any way to find out what the default FD_SETSIZE under > Freebsd-4.5-stable is? And is this a kernel parameter that can be > increased without penalty of performance degradation elsewhere? It isn't a kernel parameter - it is actually a compile time parameter. Have a look at the man page for select - it describes how to bump the value at compile time. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message