From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 14 6:42:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5705A14F20 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 06:42:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (ident=ben) by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.12 #4) id 10XPtp-0006jC-00; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:40:17 +0100 (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:40:17 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Bryce Newall Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: FD_SETSIZE Message-ID: <19990414144017.A25743@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <19990413021547.A8224@scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bryce Newall wrote: > On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Ben Smithurst wrote: > >> Judging by that, you may have to increase maxusers in the kernel config, >> or have you tried that? (I don't know what FD_SETSIZE does, unfortunately, >> though maxusers affects the max number of open files in the system, among >> other things.) > > Ok, I'll give that a try and see if the machine crashes again. So far we > haven't had any problems since the last reboot, but I hate to have this > happen again. Thanks for the suggestion! Don't make maxusers too high though: I think setting it too high can make things worse, I could be wrong about this though. I think 128 is safe, though you might have it that high already. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message