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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:38:26 -0800
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org>
To:        Len Sassaman <rabbi@anonymizer.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help request: problems with a 5.1 server and large numbers of ssh	users.
Message-ID:  <3FBD5072.7030603@acm.org>
In-Reply-To: <0C8643E8-1B1A-11D8-B160-000A959E7C72@anonymizer.com>
References:  <0C8643E8-1B1A-11D8-B160-000A959E7C72@anonymizer.com>

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Len Sassaman wrote:
> The problem is that after about 150 users log in (300ish sshd sessions, 
> since I am using privsep), incoming connections start getting dropped. 

That number (150) sounds awfully familiar; I feel like
I've seen it somewhere recently.  Hmmmm....

Try an 'fstat' when connections start getting dropped.
I wonder if something (PAM module, maybe?) is opening a
file on each connection and you're running out of per-process
file descriptors.

Tim Kientzle



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