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From: MailingListUser FreeBSD <freebsd@kick.knooppunt.be>
To: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
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Subject: Re: Too Many Files open feeding INN
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Dear,

Thanks a lot for the good advice. We changed in June '95 from Linux to
FreeBSD (it is a relieve) and use bash instead of csh... 
I read somewhere that one can limit the open files per process in the
INN-FAQ using csh.

Of course the solution you propose is a lot more intelligent. 

The scripts accompagnying the INN 1.4 binaries (ported to FreeBSD), were
written for bash, it took us some time to master the problem. Does 
someone have these scripts for csh?

We are still running FreeBSD 2.0.5, and I didn't find sysparams.h, but I
will go througt the compilation-docs again and I'm sure we will be able to
fix the problem the way you propose. 

Thanks a lot for your good advice, and keep the good things going.
Daniel Verhoeven

On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Stephen Hovey wrote:

> 
> You have to recompile freebsd's kernal with larger limits.
> 
> I set 64 or 128 max users so the over all number of files is large.
> 
> The in /usr/src/sys/include - in the sysparams.h I set maxprocs to 128 
> and max open files to 256
> 
> I also change this in the copy of sysparames.h in /usr/include
> 
> Then recompile the kernal.  You can see what your current settings are 
> before you do this by logging into the news server and type:
> 
> limit
> 
> On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, MailingListUser FreeBSD wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi Friends,
> > 
> > We use INN as our news-program. It works verry fine. We feed a lot of 
> > UUCP-nodes, therefore the system has to opmen many files. 
> > 
> > I feel unsecure when the systemload is high, I'm afraid that the files in 
> > /var/news/out.going aren't updated. Can someone give advice to make sure 
> > all news is feeded well?
> > 
> > Thanks beforehand,
> > Daniel.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
>