Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:07:37 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: "Eric L. Anderson" <anderson@more.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max NFS mounts for a FreeBSD client? Message-ID: <20070720180546.X39675@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20070720145932.GP6053@more.net> References: <20070720145932.GP6053@more.net>
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On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Eric L. Anderson wrote: > What is the limit of NFS mounts a FreeBSD server can make and how do you > modify this limit? > > The only reference I could find to this question on the FreeBSD lists is > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-July/051947.html > > I have ran a similar test and the same thing happens after 420 NFS mounts. > This is on both FreeBSD 6.0 and 6.2. > > We have recently run into a problem where we are bumping up against some > kind of limit to the number of NFS mounts on our FreeBSD servers. Sounds a bit like something is running out of reserved ports to use -- the credentials error may mean that a port number >1023 was used for an NFS connection. Given that reserved ports start around 600, 420 is about the right number of sockets to reach 1024. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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