From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 17 20:41:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A95E5106566B for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:41:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from squirrel@mail.isot.com) Received: from mail.isot.com (mail.isot.com [66.187.86.1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E488FC19 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:41:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from squirrel@mail.isot.com) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.isot.com (ISOT) with SMTP id YXG64038 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:41:38 -0600 Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:41:38 -0600 From: Squirrel To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <1ab6f1a2ff9684e6f3df38b015305ba1@mail.isot.com> X-Mailer: ISOT Web Mail 5.6.1 X-Originating-IP: 66.187.95.74 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: general: warning: max open files (3636) is smaller than maxsockets (4096) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:41:39 -0000 Nice!!! Thank you. ----------------------- PCShare.Com -----Original message----- From: David Kelly dkelly@hiwaay.net Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:32:10 -0600 To: Squirrel squirrel@mail.isot.com Subject: Re: general: warning: max open files (3636) is smaller than maxsockets (4096) > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >