From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 4 15:46:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F68D37B8ED for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 15:46:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA92675; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 15:46:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38C1A063.D33A2574@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 15:46:43 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0302 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brad Knowles Cc: Matt Heckaman , FreeBSD-STABLE Subject: Re: Error: "Maximum file descriptors exceeded"... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brad Knowles wrote: > > At 5:34 PM -0800 2000/2/29, Doug Barton wrote: > > > I used to run 2.2.x machines with maxusers at 512. That number on > > 3.2-Release will not be a problem. > > I have since gotten confirmation from Joe Greco that MAXUSERS > > 128 is a very real problem on 3.2-RELEASE. I figure Joe knows a heck > of a lot more about FreeBSD than I am ever likely to know, and he > certainly knows a lot more about Diablo (the application I was having > the problems with) than I ever will. No doubt Joe's the man. I know that my application (an IRC server) ran reliably on 2.2.8 and 3.2 with MAXUSERS at 512, but your application may be different. I would love to know what the problems are though. If they still exist in -current they should be addressed. Doug -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message