From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 28 17:21:25 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 4A5D7154E8 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 17:21:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from petzi@mail.apfel.de) Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.apfel.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA03481; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 02:47:42 +0200 (MEST) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 02:47:42 +0200 From: Michael Beckmann To: Scott Hess Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limitations in FreeBSD Message-ID: <19991029024742.B3005@apfel.de> References: <19991029011348.B2757@apfel.de> <199910282253.PAA02302@dingo.cdrom.com> <19991029020253.A3005@apfel.de> <15f901bf219e$20df55c0$1e80000a@avantgo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <15f901bf219e$20df55c0$1e80000a@avantgo.com>; from Scott Hess on Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 04:42:42PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 04:42:42PM -0700, Scott Hess wrote: > Urk! I don't mean to be insulting, but the notion that you would roll > _any_ solution out for a problem of this size based on word of mouth freaks > the crap out of me. Hey ! You guys seem to have pretty strict opinions about how to solve problems. Right now I am just investigating the options and asking for the properties of this FreeBSD OS (where news is not the only reason for finding out about them). > If you have a genuine need for 500Gig of news spool, This is roughly 10 days of newsfeed, btw. > and enough users that mmap'ed I/O in nntp is needed and the number of file > descriptors is going to be a problem, and you're willing to change I would like to know if that number of file descriptors is going to be a problem, could someone tell me please ? It appears that 2^17 are settable through sysctl, but will I actually be able to use that many ? (Yes, I could write a tool to find it out, but I am willing to rely on word of mouth here). Thanks, Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message