From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jul 23 13:48:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA13413 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 13:48:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA13407 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 13:48:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id QAA08056; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:48:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id QAA15630; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:48:43 -0400 (EDT) To: Nevin cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Limits on apache In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 Jul 1997 13:05:13 PDT." <3.0.3.32.19970723130513.031f0ac8@deepwell.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:48:42 -0400 Message-ID: <15626.869690922@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nevin wrote in message ID <3.0.3.32.19970723130513.031f0ac8@deepwell.com>: > I have receintly ran into a problem with our webserver and I was > wondering if anyone out there might be able to explain to me > whats going on. > I am running a web server using apache 1.2 and stronghold 3.0 both > on freebsd 2.2.2. > It seems the the server wants to go boom if I try to bind more than > 150 ip addresses to the network interface with ifconfig. > Has anyone else had this problem or might know if there is a limit > to the number of ip addesses that can be used? No, the limit is on the number of file descriptors you can have open from one process. I bet once you add up the number of file descriptors (i.e. 1 per IP address, one per log file you have defined in apache) that you will run into the per-process limit that is defined on your machine. Try using the apache 1.2 commands (sorry, I don't have the docs avail right now) to increase the resource limits, specifically the number of file descriptors, and see if that helps. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info