Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 10:44:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: keng@storm.dgii.com (Ken Germann) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, john@starfire.mn.org Subject: Re: IRC problem. Message-ID: <199605221544.KAA23278@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199605221355.IAA18570@storm.dgii.com> from "Ken Germann" at May 22, 96 08:55:58 am
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> I am running an IRC server that I am finding can only accept > 260 clients before it segment faults and dumps core. I've tried > to change the FD_SETSIZE to a large number to get around this > problem and it doesn't appear to work. When I set the FD_SETSIZE > to 384, 512, or 1024 the server won't connect to the IRC network. > There are a couple of other sites running FreeBSD 2.1 like I am that > are running into the same problem. The problem doesn't appear to affect > BSDI 2.1 or NetBSD. > > Any assistance with this problem would be appreciated. Based on my (poor) recollection of past discussions, there's a problem with select fd_set's with fds > 255. I'd surely like to see this fixed too. ;-) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968
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