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Date:      Wed, 22 May 1996 10:44:02 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        keng@storm.dgii.com (Ken Germann)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, john@starfire.mn.org
Subject:   Re: IRC problem.
Message-ID:  <199605221544.KAA23278@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <199605221355.IAA18570@storm.dgii.com> from "Ken Germann" at May 22, 96 08:55:58 am

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> I am running an IRC server that I am finding can only accept 
> 260 clients before it segment faults and dumps core. I've tried
> to change the FD_SETSIZE to a large number to get around this 
> problem and it doesn't appear to work. When I set the FD_SETSIZE
> to 384, 512, or 1024 the server won't connect to the IRC network.
> There are a couple of other sites running FreeBSD 2.1 like I am that
> are running into the same problem. The problem doesn't appear to affect
> BSDI 2.1 or NetBSD.
> 
> Any assistance with this problem would be appreciated.

Based on my (poor) recollection of past discussions, there's a problem with
select fd_set's with fds > 255.

I'd surely like to see this fixed too.  ;-)

... Joe

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