Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 02:47:42 +0200 From: Michael Beckmann <petzi@apfel.de> To: Scott Hess <scott@avantgo.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limitations in FreeBSD Message-ID: <19991029024742.B3005@apfel.de> In-Reply-To: <15f901bf219e$20df55c0$1e80000a@avantgo.com>; from Scott Hess on Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 04:42:42PM -0700 References: <19991029011348.B2757@apfel.de> <199910282253.PAA02302@dingo.cdrom.com> <19991029020253.A3005@apfel.de> <15f901bf219e$20df55c0$1e80000a@avantgo.com>
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On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 04:42:42PM -0700, Scott Hess wrote: > Urk! I don't mean to be insulting, but the notion that you would roll > _any_ solution out for a problem of this size based on word of mouth freaks > the crap out of me. Hey ! You guys seem to have pretty strict opinions about how to solve problems. Right now I am just investigating the options and asking for the properties of this FreeBSD OS (where news is not the only reason for finding out about them). > If you have a genuine need for 500Gig of news spool, This is roughly 10 days of newsfeed, btw. > and enough users that mmap'ed I/O in nntp is needed and the number of file > descriptors is going to be a problem, and you're willing to change I would like to know if that number of file descriptors is going to be a problem, could someone tell me please ? It appears that 2^17 are settable through sysctl, but will I actually be able to use that many ? (Yes, I could write a tool to find it out, but I am willing to rely on word of mouth here). Thanks, Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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