From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jun 15 13:46:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA25097 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 13:46:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from december.real.net.au (root@december.real.net.au [203.25.56.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA25092 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 13:46:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pyromaniac (www.kemenys.com.au [203.17.240.90]) by december.real.net.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA12595 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 06:45:55 +1000 Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970616064557.0094c3a0@pop.real.net.au> X-Sender: richard@pop.real.net.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 06:45:57 +1000 To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Richard Laxton Subject: Re: large number of file handles open In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We ran into problems with Linux when we ran over about 125 virtual WWW servers on one machine because of Linux's static file limit of 255 files open. I just changed this limit and recompiled the Kernel and apache and things work perfectly. Are FreeBSD's file tables static like this or are they completely dynamic? Richard. At 13:56 10/06/97 -0700, Randy Katz wrote: >Sounds interesting, theory and all, but who in their right mind would put >500 virtual servers on one machine? Sounds crazy to me... And 1000 file >handles doesn't seem to be a problem for MOST Unixes. > >On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Manar Hussain wrote: > >> I've heard one can hit problems with some unices running a large number of >> virtual servers (with say apache) with different log files for each virtual >> server: the problem being that with 500 virtual servers configured you have >> say 1000 file handles you'd want open to the log files. Does anyone know if >> this problem would occur with FreeBSD ??? >> >> Manar >> > > >RAK > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- >Randy A. Katz >Computer Consultation & Sales >505 S. Beverly Drive, Suite 472 Beverly Hills, CA 90212 >(213) 307-9581 http://www.ccsales.com >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > >