Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 10:12:52 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> To: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@revelstone.jvm.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: maxuser > 64 warning Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961029101013.29280A-100000@alive.ampr.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961029114415.7009A-100000@revelstone.jvm.com>
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Don't worry about the warning. It is just there for fun. You may also want something like: options "SOMAXCONN=256" options "NMBCLUSTERS=4096" for a busy web server, depending on your definition of busy. On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Cliff Addy wrote: > We're building a custom kernel for a busy webserver. We set the maxusers > to 256, the CHILD_MAX to 256, and the OPEN_MAX to 256. When we run > config, we get a warning that maxusers is over 64. > > Is there a problem with maxusers over 64? We want to insure that the > kernel tables are large enough to handle a large number of processes > (we've already had problems with full tables) and that we can avoid > insufficient file handle problems. The server is has 64 megs of RAM, > most of which is used as cache, so a large kernel wouldn't seem to be a > problem. Would the kernel be significantly slower? > > Cliff >
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