From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 1 1: 3:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.skynet.be (trinity.skynet.be [195.238.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DC5437BE57 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 01:03:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by trinity.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8854C123A9; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 10:03:21 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 09:56:14 +0100 To: Doug Barton From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Error: "Maximum file descriptors exceeded"... Cc: Matt Heckaman , FreeBSD-STABLE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 5:34 PM -0800 2000/2/29, Doug Barton wrote: > I used to run 2.2.x machines with maxusers at 512. That number on > 3.2-Release will not be a problem. I have since gotten confirmation from Joe Greco that MAXUSERS > 128 is a very real problem on 3.2-RELEASE. I figure Joe knows a heck of a lot more about FreeBSD than I am ever likely to know, and he certainly knows a lot more about Diablo (the application I was having the problems with) than I ever will. This is why he is the person giving the talk at SANE 2000 on building world-class USENET news services with commodity components (scalable from 300k users to millions of users, and starting at 1.8TB of storage, see ), and not me. > First rule of system administration, never leave yourself without > options. It would be nice if the real world allowed people to actually follow such rules. -- These are my opinions and should not be taken as official Skynet policy ========================================================================= Brad Knowles, Sys. Arch., Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin Note: No Microsoft programs were used in the creation or distribution of this message. If you are using a Microsoft program to view this message, be forewarned that I am not responsible for any harm you may encounter as a result. See for details. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message