From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 25 16:39:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BF7515302 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:39:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (ident=ben) by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.12 #4) id 10QJbk-0003RO-00; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 23:32:16 +0000 (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 23:32:16 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Jesse Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.1-STABLE dies on 40+ connects Message-ID: <19990325233216.A2195@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jesse wrote: > Just to make sure it wasn't something specific to the icecast server, I > enabled chargen in /etc/inetd.conf and did another stress test over the > network. It survived 40 connections, so I tried 100. It was fine. I tried > 200 and the server crashed. Define "crashed". I assume there was a panic, if so, what was the panic message? I had a problem like this, I was stress testing Apache, increasing NMBCLUSTERS to 4096 fixed it for me. (``sysctl kern.ipc.nmbclusters'' will tell you what it's currently at.) -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message