From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 20 13:35:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mr200.netcologne.de (mr200.netcologne.de [194.8.194.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 504B837B71A for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:35:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Received: from husten.security.at12.de (dial-213-168-64-176.netcologne.de [213.168.64.176]) by mr200.netcologne.de (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id ACT75210; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:00:53 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by husten.security.at12.de (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2KL0eD42311; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:00:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:00:40 +0100 (CET) From: Paul Herman To: Matt Dillon Cc: "Michael C . Wu" , Alfred Perlstein , Subject: Re: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server In-Reply-To: <200103201848.f2KImj995560@earth.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message