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Date:      Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:34:44 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
To:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
Cc:        Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>, FreeBSD-STABLE <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Error: "Maximum file descriptors exceeded"...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002291733460.44149-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <v0422080ab4e19df0856e@[195.238.1.121]>

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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 10:51 AM -0500 2000/2/29, Matt Heckaman wrote:
> 
> >  To be quite honest with you, I'm not very sure where this idea came from
> >  that MAXUSERS > 128 is bad, I've been running configs like that for quite
> >  a while (I guess ( 3.1+)) and never had a bit of trouble, minus the time
> >  I had a hard drive fail, but that doesn't really count =)
> 
> 	This particular machine is in production and running 3.2-RELEASE, 
> so MAXUSERS > 128 might still be a problem.

	I used to run 2.2.x machines with maxusers at 512. That number on
3.2-Release will not be a problem.

>  I can't take the machine 
> out of production, so upgrading the OS really isn't an option.

	First rule of system administration, never leave yourself without
options. 
 
Doug
-- 
"Welcome to the desert of the real." 

    - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix"



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