From owner-freebsd-isp Thu May 14 08:09:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA15844 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 08:09:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com (scanner.worldgate.com [198.161.84.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA15834 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 08:09:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcs@znep.com) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id JAA16196; Thu, 14 May 1998 09:08:21 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.znep.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA28749; Thu, 14 May 1998 09:03:39 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 09:03:38 -0600 (MDT) From: Marc Slemko To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" cc: David Muir Sharnoff , andreas@klemm.gtn.com, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how many virtual www server on a 2.2.6 PPro machine ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 14 May 1998, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > I've run about 300 on my system. A PPro 180, 192MB (at the time). > > > > I carefully made sure there were enough file descriptors. There was > > one serious problem though: bind 4.9.* could not handle more than > > about 256 interfaces! I had to do an emergency upgrade to bind > > 8.1.1. > > Or don't run BIND on the WWW machine. Or tell it to only listen on certain interfaces. There are patches around to let you do this on 4.9.x. 8.x, of course, has this built in. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message