Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:03:53 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Squirrel <squirrel@mail.isot.com> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: general: warning: max open files (3636) is smaller than max sockets (4096) Message-ID: <20090317190352.GA38038@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> In-Reply-To: <e0836f3fad4cf498156082eb15e1ece2@mail.isot.com> References: <e0836f3fad4cf498156082eb15e1ece2@mail.isot.com>
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On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:31:43PM -0600, Squirrel wrote: > This happend since I've upgraded bind 9.21 to 9.6.0. I've increased > the max open files to 4096: > > sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=4096 > > which shows it resized from 4040->4096 > > But I guess it's different for bind? I've googled and found several > references to this warning message, but everyone states it's not a > problem and shouldn't be concerned. Some real advice would be > appreciated. Depends a lot as to how busy your name server is, I guess. Mine is a lightly loaded in internal office use. When my PII 450 MHz 192MB machine issued similar complaint on upgrade of bind I was tricked into rebooting a machine with over 800 days uptime only to get the exact same message again. So I limited the number of sockets named would ask for using this in /etc/rc.conf: named_flags="-4 -S 1024" -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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