Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 09:56:14 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>, FreeBSD-STABLE <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Error: "Maximum file descriptors exceeded"... Message-ID: <v04220801b4e28acc9bf5@[195.238.19.249]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002291733460.44149-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002291733460.44149-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com>
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At 5:34 PM -0800 2000/2/29, Doug Barton wrote: > I used to run 2.2.x machines with maxusers at 512. That number on > 3.2-Release will not be a problem. I have since gotten confirmation from Joe Greco that MAXUSERS > 128 is a very real problem on 3.2-RELEASE. I figure Joe knows a heck of a lot more about FreeBSD than I am ever likely to know, and he certainly knows a lot more about Diablo (the application I was having the problems with) than I ever will. This is why he is the person giving the talk at SANE 2000 on building world-class USENET news services with commodity components (scalable from 300k users to millions of users, and starting at 1.8TB of storage, see <http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2000/daily/25/greco.html>), and not me. > First rule of system administration, never leave yourself without > options. It would be nice if the real world allowed people to actually follow such rules. -- These are my opinions and should not be taken as official Skynet policy ========================================================================= Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Sys. Arch., Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin Note: No Microsoft programs were used in the creation or distribution of this message. If you are using a Microsoft program to view this message, be forewarned that I am not responsible for any harm you may encounter as a result. See <http://i-want-a-website.com/about-microsoft/twelve-step.html>; for details. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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