Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 16:32:33 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Christopher Nielsen <enkhyl@hayseed.net> Cc: "Mikhail A. Sokolov" <mishania@demos.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current panics.. Message-ID: <199810052332.QAA16333@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Oct 1998 14:32:56 PDT." <Pine.LNX.4.04.9810051426560.13926-100000@hillbilly.hayseed.net>
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>> Properly tuned, FreeBSD will work just fine for large servers. You have to >> know what you are doing, however. This will be the case for ALL operating >> systems, not just FreeBSD. I'm not convinced that there are any "leaks" in >> FreeBSD. All of those that I have investigated have turned out to be just >> a large average number of TIME_WAIT connections that haven't timed out yet. >> The system must be configured with this in mind or you will run out of >> buffers. > >This same kind of situation can occur with a network-intensive app running >under Solaris, too. From my own experience with tuning OSs (specifically >Solaris 2.x), I'd agree with David's assessment. Not having delved that >far into the details of FreeBSD "leaks" as he probably has, I can't say >with certainty that there are none, but I'm inclined to believe him. :-) I should say here that I'm not saying that there aren't any "leak" bugs, either, just that I have looked into this several time and found nothing but mis-tuned systems. I'm also a bit incredulous since wcarchive does far more TCP/IP than most other machines in the world, has months of uptime and no detectable buffer leaks. I want to be clear about this: If there was a bug that I could identify, I'd fix it immediately. "Show me the mon^H^H^Hbug!" -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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