From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 22 10:55:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA13833 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 10:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cu-online.com (root@mail.cu-online.com [205.198.248.82]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA13819 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 10:55:38 -0700 (PDT) From: jayk@babba.cu-online.com Received: from babba.cu-online.com (jayk@babba.cu-online.com [205.198.248.21]) by mail.cu-online.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA02911; Wed, 22 May 1996 12:55:54 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 12:52:30 -0500 (CDT) To: Ken Germann cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, john@starfire.mn.org Subject: Re: IRC problem. In-Reply-To: <199605221355.IAA18570@storm.dgii.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. >