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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
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Subject: Re: 3.0 tuning tips?
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On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Jaye Mathisen wrote:

> 3.0-curent, supped 9/2/97.
> 
> Under serious connection load (Using inetload), I'm getting various

  I've never heard of inetload.  Where did you get it?

> failures that I'm sure are just tuning related.
> 
> I have maxusers set to 64 in the kernel.
> 
> 
> I'm getting errors like:  "No Buffer space available", "File table full",
> and others.
> 
> 
> WHere do I start tweaking some of this stuff? I've modified rc.conf, and
> bumped up limits all around.
> 
> I'm more concerned with the no buffers and file table stuff than things
> like maxproc.

  Go to maxusers 128.  It gives you more descriptors (larger file table),
and more mbufs.

Tom