From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 8 17:20:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA16609 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 17:20:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from goof.com (root@goof.com [128.173.247.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA16601; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 17:20:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mmead@localhost) by goof.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA10981; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 20:18:32 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199703090118.UAA10981@goof.com> Subject: freebsd as a news server? To: isp@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 20:18:32 -0500 (EST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've recently configured a 200Mhz PPro on a TYAN motherboard with 128M ram and 45G of ultra wide scsi drives (5 9G drives total) hanging off an Adaptec 3940UW. Anyway, I initially had forgotten to up the per user process limit and open files limit. This thing's running innd. Anyway, I started getting messages about too many open files and no more processes (when many users connected at once). So I changed CHILD_MAX and OPEN_MAX to 1024 each. Since then, expire has been taking over 18 hours to run. It seems to have started after the reboot that changed the kernel. Does anyone have any idea why this would happen? What have others used for these limits to get better performance? Thanks in advance! -matt -- Matthew C. Mead mmead@goof.com http://www.goof.com/~mmead/