From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 4 17: 7:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from malasada.lava.net (malasada.lava.net [199.222.42.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFF9C37B921 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 17:07:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cliftonr@lava.net) Received: from localhost (2123 bytes) by malasada.lava.net via sendmail with P:stdio/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 15:07:23 -1000 (HST) (Smail-3.2.0.106 1999-Mar-31 #3 built 1999-Dec-7) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 15:07:23 -1000 From: Clifton Royston To: Doug Barton Cc: Brad Knowles , Matt Heckaman , FreeBSD-STABLE Subject: Re: Error: "Maximum file descriptors exceeded"... Message-ID: <20000304150723.D25818@lava.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- cliftonr@lava.net The named which can be named is not the Eternal named. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message