Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 16:23:36 -0700 From: Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net> To: "Jay Johnson" <nsx@allinet.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question Message-ID: <199611022323.QAA23614@fluffy.aros.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 Nov 1996 14:31:21 PST." <B0000000449@nt.allinet.com>
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> 2.0.23, and for some reason our servers are limited to 254 connections. We > tell the server software to go to 500 and linux gives back an error saying > hardconfiged 254 connections. Change your server software back to 254. I You can probably hack this, but it won't be really easy to do. I did it once under 1.2.13, but I don't know how you'd do it to 2.0.x - a lot of the include files have changed. As I recall, it took 2 or 3 changes to various header files to make it work properly, and then a lot of recompilation. > have talked to alot of people about this and they say linux won't do it, I > was wondering if FreeBSD would ? I know ftp.cdrom.com has 1200 but not > sure if ftp is the same kinda connection as what im dealing with. I will Yes. We have our max connections on our IRC box set to 1200 + 100 local customers, and we hit 1220 for about an hour during the day. It handles it perfectly. (Our IRC admins say it's the best box they've ever dealt with for handling IRC). The only thing you'll really have to do is increase MAXUSERS in your kernel config file, and give the machine as many NMBCLUSTERS as you think you'll need. 8,192 seems to work well for us (it gobbles some memory, but ..) >From the kernel config file: machine "i386" cpu "I586_CPU" ident WIBBLE maxusers 64 options "NMBCLUSTERS=10240" # More network mbuf clusters One other thing we do on our IRC box that you might want to consider - we compile in IP firewalling and block off most of the IRC server to the world. With a machine that spends its eye in the public so much, it saves us a lot of potential headaches. IP firewalling under FreeBSD is relatively quick to configure.. use if if you switch over to FreeBSD. > probably get freebsd and try it out on another server before taking down > our irc server. I have heard that FreeBSD is alot more powerful than Linux > anyway. How does it compare to BSDI or SCO Unix? Anyway any information > about this would be greatly apreciated. Thanks Can't help too much there. Sorry. :) We're an all-FreeBSD shop now that we've migrated our machines from Linux. Best move we ever made. :) -Dave
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