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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