From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 17 17:32:54 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA11703 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 17:32:54 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA11698 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 17:32:51 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.50]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id RAA00912; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 17:32:50 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id RAA00541; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 17:31:02 -0800 Message-Id: <199511180131.RAA00541@corbin.Root.COM> To: Jim Dennis cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MAXUSERS=64 -- kernel panics In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Nov 95 17:35:55 PST." <199511180135.RAA07661@mistery.mcafee.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 17:31:01 -0800 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I recently installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 to replace my overloaded > Linux box. We run an ftp site that almost as popular as > Walnut Creek's (roughly 400,000 file transfers per month). We do about that many files in one day. :-) (actually, about 200,000 files/ 35GB/day) > Naturally I found that the generic kernel would run out of > file handles almost immediately (5 min. max.) that was > at 24 incoming sessions. Besides I certainly planned on > rebuilding the kernel anyway. So I config'd to 128 -- > it complained that this was > 64, so I brought it down > to 64 and rebuilt. Ignore the warning. It will be removed in a future release of FreeBSD. > Ahh -- this must be news then -- she reboots! The 2.0 kernel > (which I had tried first) would wait ten minutes (getting upto > 70 ftp sessions or so) and then panic. 2.0.5 had the grace to > refrain from lulling me into a false sense of security by > dying immediately. Upgrade to 2.1. I have maxusers set at 200 on wcarchive. The only panics it experiances are caused by the hardware (we have a 2 bit memory error that keeps causing problems). ...but this is only happening about once in 12 days. It otherwise hums along at 350+ users (the limit is 400 at the moment). If you continue to have problems with FreeBSD 2.1, I'll be interested in investigating the problem personally...so please complain! :-) -DG