From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 29 17:36: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F1637BDA4 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:34:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA44366; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:34:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:34:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n0b.san.rr.com To: Brad Knowles Cc: Matt Heckaman , FreeBSD-STABLE Subject: Re: Error: "Maximum file descriptors exceeded"... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 10:51 AM -0500 2000/2/29, Matt Heckaman wrote: > > > To be quite honest with you, I'm not very sure where this idea came from > > that MAXUSERS > 128 is bad, I've been running configs like that for quite > > a while (I guess ( 3.1+)) and never had a bit of trouble, minus the time > > I had a hard drive fail, but that doesn't really count =) > > This particular machine is in production and running 3.2-RELEASE, > so MAXUSERS > 128 might still be a problem. I used to run 2.2.x machines with maxusers at 512. That number on 3.2-Release will not be a problem. > I can't take the machine > out of production, so upgrading the OS really isn't an option. First rule of system administration, never leave yourself without options. Doug -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message