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From: Geoff Mohler <gemohler@dyslexic.phoenix.net>
To: "John A. Booth" <john@ulantris.infinop.com>
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Subject: Re: IRC Server
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On Thu, 9 May 1996, John A. Booth wrote:

> > 
> > We are setting up an IRC server..and when in a load test, the ircd 
> > crashes at 260 connections regurally.
> >  
> > Does anyone have any expereince with ircd and 2.1 freebsd.
> Doing a limit in tcsh gives this.  
> See if your descriptors are only set to 256, this could give
> that behaviour.
> 
> (output from limit on my machine).
> cputime 	unlimited
> filesize 	unlimited
> datasize 	65536 kbytes
> stacksize 	8192 kbytes
> coredumpsize 	unlimited
> memoryuse 	11316 kbytes
> descriptors 	128 
> memorylocked 	7546 kbytes
> maxproc 	128 


Nope..changed that and some code as well.

The DALnet irc server runs 500+ on a small 486, and on the P166 with 
64Mb, it crashes at exactly 256 clients.
 
Please..anyone with any ideas..im open.
 
PS: What happened to the ircd port??

Its still listed as a package.

G