From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 7 15:08:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA27545 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 15:08:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mistery.mcafee.com (jimd@mistery.mcafee.com [192.187.128.69]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA27540 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 15:08:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jimd@localhost) by mistery.mcafee.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA05412 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 7 Jun 2010 15:06:38 -0700 From: Jim Dennis Message-Id: <201006072206.PAA05412@mistery.mcafee.com> Subject: wu-ftpd mem % process? capacity?? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 110 15:06:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a couple of ftp servers (Dell Dimension, Pentium 133 with 128Mb of RAM apiece 64 - 128Mb of swap each). These are running FreeBSD 2.1 -- the kernels are compiled for MAXUSERS=128. Each of the ftp processes seems to take about 400K. That means that I can only get about 300 ftp processes per machine before I'm getting "out of swap space" messages. What can I do to increase the capacity of these systems? Would "strip"-ing the ftpd's help? Has anyone on this group used the 'anon-ftp' package? Does it support anything like WU's "guestgroups" features? Is is sufficiently more lightweight than WU to make a difference? Where I can I find it (or a FreeBSD port)?