From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 5 05:28:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A7AD16A41F for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 05:28:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: from ox.eicat.ca (ox.eicat.ca [66.96.30.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6CE943D62 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 05:28:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by ox.eicat.ca (Postfix, from userid 66) id 18C601174C; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 00:28:51 -0500 (EST) Received: by canoe.dclg.ca (Postfix, from userid 101) id BCAD01A08FC; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 00:28:44 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17340.44684.682393.620685@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 00:28:44 -0500 To: Francisco Reyes In-Reply-To: References: <17339.61532.649959.1059@canoe.dclg.ca> <17340.41997.290075.251660@canoe.dclg.ca> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 18) "Social Property" XEmacs Lucid Cc: FreeBSD ISP , David Gilbert Subject: Re: FreeBSD +NFS + mail services X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 05:28:52 -0000 >>>>> "Francisco" == Francisco Reyes writes: Francisco> I am more concerned with having more connections than Francisco> needed on the server... specially as the number of clients Francisco> increase. I think that's delt with just fine by the limit on the maximum number of them. Francisco> Thanks to Darren Pilgrim I decreased sysctl Francisco> vfs.nfs.iodmaxidle to 30 instead of 120. That way those nfs Francisco> client programs will only wait 30 seconds of idle time Francisco> before dissapearing. Francisco> I am also considering setting the upper limit for clients Francisco> to 10. Remember that, in the end, this is really just a limit on parallelism. I remember some wizdom from way back when that you wanted this number around 2x to 4x the number of actual spools servicing things as there really wasn't any point in growing it further. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================