From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 20 13: 5:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C82337B71B for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:05:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f2KL2wg27895; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:02:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:02:58 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Paul Herman Cc: Matt Dillon , "Michael C . Wu" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server Message-ID: <20010320130257.F29888@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200103201848.f2KImj995560@earth.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from pherman@frenchfries.net on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:00:40PM +0100 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Paul Herman [010320 13:02] wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > > > :We have 'vmstat 5' available at http://zoo.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~keichii/ > > :Fresh hot vmstat 1 log at > > :http://zoo.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~keichii/vmstat_1.log > > > > I usually don't increase 'maxusers' above 256 myself, but > > 512 should be fine. Everything else looks fine too. > > I ran a heavily loaded (3.4-RELEASE) www/mysql server once which > randomly froze about every three days. It had maxusers 512, and > backing it off to about 490 got rid of the freezing. IIRC, it used to > not be safe to run maxusers 512, but things may have changed since > then. It should have been fixed, if it's broken again we'd like to know. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message