Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:34:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>, FreeBSD-STABLE <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Error: "Maximum file descriptors exceeded"... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002291733460.44149-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <v0422080ab4e19df0856e@[195.238.1.121]>
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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 10:51 AM -0500 2000/2/29, Matt Heckaman wrote:
>
> > To be quite honest with you, I'm not very sure where this idea came from
> > that MAXUSERS > 128 is bad, I've been running configs like that for quite
> > a while (I guess ( 3.1+)) and never had a bit of trouble, minus the time
> > I had a hard drive fail, but that doesn't really count =)
>
> This particular machine is in production and running 3.2-RELEASE,
> so MAXUSERS > 128 might still be a problem.
I used to run 2.2.x machines with maxusers at 512. That number on
3.2-Release will not be a problem.
> I can't take the machine
> out of production, so upgrading the OS really isn't an option.
First rule of system administration, never leave yourself without
options.
Doug
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