Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:40:17 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FD_SETSIZE Message-ID: <19990414144017.A25743@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.10.9904131142270.6533-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org> References: <19990413021547.A8224@scientia.demon.co.uk> <Pine.NEB.4.10.9904131142270.6533-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org>
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Bryce Newall wrote: > On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Ben Smithurst wrote: > >> Judging by that, you may have to increase maxusers in the kernel config, >> or have you tried that? (I don't know what FD_SETSIZE does, unfortunately, >> though maxusers affects the max number of open files in the system, among >> other things.) > > Ok, I'll give that a try and see if the machine crashes again. So far we > haven't had any problems since the last reboot, but I hate to have this > happen again. Thanks for the suggestion! Don't make maxusers too high though: I think setting it too high can make things worse, I could be wrong about this though. I think 128 is safe, though you might have it that high already. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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