From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 28 16:36:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.apfel.de (mail.apfel.de [195.252.143.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC693151B5 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 16:36:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from petzi@mail.apfel.de) Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.apfel.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA03203; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 02:02:54 +0200 (MEST) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 02:02:53 +0200 From: Michael Beckmann To: Mike Smith Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limitations in FreeBSD Message-ID: <19991029020253.A3005@apfel.de> References: <19991029011348.B2757@apfel.de> <199910282253.PAA02302@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199910282253.PAA02302@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 03:53:20PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 03:53:20PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > How many fd's do you plan to have open? This would be 2^17 to 2^19. Would that be advisable ? I have never seen anything like that. > How severe is the performance > penalty (have you actually measured it yet, or are you just going on > word of mouth)? The latter. Measuring would be difficult due to lack of tools, and IŽd rather not make life tests in production machines. Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message