Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 15:07:23 -1000 From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> To: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>, FreeBSD-STABLE <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Error: "Maximum file descriptors exceeded"... Message-ID: <20000304150723.D25818@lava.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002291733460.44149-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com> References: <v0422080ab4e19df0856e@[195.238.1.121]> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002291733460.44149-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com>
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On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 05:34:44PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Brad Knowles wrote:
> > At 10:51 AM -0500 2000/2/29, Matt Heckaman wrote:
> >
> > > To be quite honest with you, I'm not very sure where this idea came from
> > > that MAXUSERS > 128 is bad, I've been running configs like that for quite
> > > a while (I guess ( 3.1+)) and never had a bit of trouble, minus the time
> > > I had a hard drive fail, but that doesn't really count =)
> >
> > This particular machine is in production and running 3.2-RELEASE,
> > so MAXUSERS > 128 might still be a problem.
>
> I used to run 2.2.x machines with maxusers at 512. That number on
> 3.2-Release will not be a problem.
Would the info on how tuning this knob *really* works in BSD/OS be
too off-topic? (There it's not really a good/bad or works/doesn't
case, but more an issue of "> X is non-optimal for these reasons.")
It's definitely different code, but as they are derived from the same
code base, there may be some relevance to FreeBSD. I've been meaning
to dig into the FreeBSD kernel headers since this came up and see just
how closely it applies, and could do so if there's general interest,
since nobody seems to have posted an authoritative answer.
-- Clifton
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