From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 31 12:16:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA04210 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 12:16:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from corpex.com (kaneda.corpex.com [194.74.216.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA04202 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 12:16:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by corpex.com via sendmail with stdio id for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:18:31 +0000 (GMT) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #1 built 1996-Aug-19) Message-Id: From: neil@corpex.com (Neil) Subject: OPEN_MAX and CHILD_MAX To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (Questions Freebsd) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:18:31 +0000 (GMT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP3 *ALPHA*] 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 Hi, We are ever trying to push back the system limits for running Virtual servers on a single machine. We have already re-compiled the kernel to the following specifications, and obvioucly we are looking to increasing them further. I'd like to know where we are going to hit a wall, and wether those walls are scalable and if so how. I'm sure some of you have done this already. CHILD_MAX=128 OPEN_MAX=360 maxusers 64 We are currently running 250 Virtual Servers under this configuration, I would assume we can go to ~360 readily. btw this is a P166/64Mb machine. Cheers, Neil -- Neil Fowler Wright Systems Administrator Corpex Ltd. +44 171 242 4555