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Date:      Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:00:40 +0100 (CET)
From:      Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103202155310.14957-100000@husten.security.at12.de>
In-Reply-To: <200103201848.f2KImj995560@earth.backplane.com>

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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.

-Paul.


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