From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 22 08:45:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA04978 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 08:45:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA04972 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 08:45:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id KAA23278; Wed, 22 May 1996 10:44:03 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199605221544.KAA23278@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: IRC problem. To: keng@storm.dgii.com (Ken Germann) Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 10:44:02 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, john@starfire.mn.org In-Reply-To: <199605221355.IAA18570@storm.dgii.com> from "Ken Germann" at May 22, 96 08:55:58 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968