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From: nuance@twri.tamu.edu (Dennis Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: raising fd limit
Date: 10 Oct 1996 00:56:21 GMT
Organization: elite bastards of alt.irc
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i'm running an irc server on freebsd, and i'm trying to raise the number of
connections it will allow. before i started the ircd process, i did:
> limit
descriptors 64
> limit descriptors 360
> limit
descriptors 360
(other limits snipped)
anyway, i started the server, but it still seems to max out at the same
number of connections (around 240). is there something we need to change
in the kernel and recompile? i was under the impression freebsd could
change this on the fly.
> netstat -n | grep tcp | wc -l
277
man limit brings up the csh manpage, but it doesn't mention anything about
the descriptors.. do i need to limit -h? i'd do trial and error, but it's
really inconvenient to stop and restart the server for all the people
connected to it. also i'd have to wait for a couple hundred people to
connect to see if it worked, so any help will be appreciated. btw:
FreeBSD anarchy.tamu.edu 2.1.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE #0: Wed Sep 11
18:36:50 CDT 1996 fes@anarchy.tamu.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/MYKERNEL i386
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