From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 14:35:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 010B116A4CE for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:35:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao07.cox.net (lakemtao07.cox.net [68.1.17.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84BEE43D31 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:35:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kitbsdlist2@HotPOP.com) Received: from vixen42 ([68.109.49.234]) by lakemtao07.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with SMTP id <20040213223507.XDIP2432.lakemtao07.cox.net@vixen42>; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:35:07 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:33:44 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox To: Matt Freitag Message-Id: <20040213163344.7f79c0c6@vixen42.> In-Reply-To: <402D319B.1090809@inodes.us> References: <20040213001513.M60613@gardrail.com> <402D319B.1090809@inodes.us> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: Bill Subject: Re: Obtaining 75k (active) concurrent tcp sessions.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 22:35:08 -0000 On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:20:43 -0600 Matt Freitag wrote: > For FreeBSD to support that many concurrent connections some kernel > values must be tweaked. Namely, you'll need to set > "kern.ipc.nmbclusters=81920" in loader.conf as it's a read-only oid. Is this something that has changed since 4x? AFAIK it should be settable in /etc/sysctl.conf... atleast it is on 4x, not sure about 5x