From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jul 23 14:43:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA16766 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 14:43:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from negril.msrce.howard.edu (negril.msrce.howard.edu [138.238.128.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA16759; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 14:43:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by negril.msrce.howard.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/24Feb97-8.2MPM) id AA01622; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 17:36:26 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 17:36:26 -0400 From: Aaron Jackson Message-Id: <9707232136.AA01622@negril.msrce.howard.edu> To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, nevin@deepwell.com Subject: Re: Limits on apache Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The apache group released an update that addresses this problem. The current release of apache is 1.2.1. There should also be a workaround posted on the faq at www.apache.org. I hope this helps. Aaron Jackson jackson@msrce.howard.edu >> I am running a web server using apache 1.2 and stronghold 3.0 both >> on freebsd 2.2.2. > >> It seems the the server wants to go boom if I try to bind more than >> 150 ip addresses to the network interface with ifconfig. > >> Has anyone else had this problem or might know if there is a limit >> to the number of ip addesses that can be used? > >No, the limit is on the number of file descriptors you can have open >from one process. I bet once you add up the number of file descriptors >(i.e. 1 per IP address, one per log file you have defined in apache) >that you will run into the per-process limit that is defined on your >machine. Try using the apache 1.2 commands (sorry, I don't have the >docs avail right now) to increase the resource limits, specifically >the number of file descriptors, and see if that helps.