From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 6 6:18:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from acutiator.nacamar.de (mail.nacamar.de [194.162.162.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE9637BE37 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 06:18:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karsten@rohrbach.de) Received: from hardcore (dchp13.nacamar.de [195.63.63.246]) by acutiator.nacamar.de (Postfix) with SMTP id B57EC5D83; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 15:17:46 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <009c01bf8776$ba6783a0$f63f3fc3@hardcore> From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: "Egervary Gergely" Cc: References: Subject: Re: MAXUSERS question, what is max MAXUSERS setting? Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 15:10:32 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG well i bumped it to 512 and nmbclusters to 32768 on several machines that got 5000+ (!) http requests a second... the problem is the number of maximum open files in the system (32k in this case) and open sockets. /k -- The path of excess leads to the tower of wisdom. -W. Blake Karsten W. Rohrbach - Senior Research Engineer - Nacamar Data Communications one world. one net. nacamar - http://www.nacamar.net This was written on the road... Answers to your reply could be delayed. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Egervary Gergely" To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" Cc: Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 9:51 AM Subject: Re: MAXUSERS question, what is max MAXUSERS setting? > > i just wondered what the maximum MAXUSERS setting for a 3.4 kernel would > > be on a smp system with 512mb ram... the impact on the system structures > > seems to be very... errrhh... rather complex. > > > > any ideas? it gives me a warning if i got past 512, but what will happen > > then? > > see conf/param.c to see what it means. > > I don't thing you need to set it >128, if you have large network traffic, > you should increase NMBCLUSTERS, and other VM limits. > > -- mauzi > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message