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Date:      Wed, 22 May 1996 12:52:30 -0500 (CDT)
From:      jayk@babba.cu-online.com
To:        Ken Germann <keng@storm.dgii.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, john@starfire.mn.org
Subject:   Re: IRC problem.
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.93.960522125117.25198A-100000@babba.cu-online.com>
In-Reply-To: <199605221355.IAA18570@storm.dgii.com>

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Well, in your kernel config, try adding:

options		MAX_CHILD=1024
options		MAX_OPEN=1024

	Also, you will probably need to change FD_SETSIZE and OPEN
to 1024.

	This should fix your problem.


On Wed, 22 May 1996, Ken Germann wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 




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