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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Does leafnode work?
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 03:25:59 +0100
Organization: Awfulhak Limited.
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In article <k3dvo5.06.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com>,
conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) writes:
> In article <87lo3yxw1t.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl>,
> Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>>I compiled it using gmake, but had to do some install things manually
>>(esp. create the message.id directories). So I don't have a patch. But
>>after running it a while I started getting 'too many open file'
>>errors. I didn't sort this out further yet.
>
> You need to reconfig/rebuild your kernel to increase the size of the
> system's tables.
>
> I'm currently using
>
> maxusers 32
> options CHILD_MAX=256
> options OPEN_MAX=512
>
> which seems to be adequate.
>
> Interestingly, when I upgraded from FreeBSD 2.x to CURRENT, I had to
> increase these settings. If you're using 2.x, you can probably get by
> with less than the above (I was using maxusers 20 and OPEN_MAX 256
> before).
>
> I *promise* I'll get working on submitting a port Real Soon Now. :-)
> Hadn't seen that much interest in leafnode until recently.
>
> If you just can't wait, check the incoming dir on ftp.freebsd.org.
> There's an old port of leafnode 0.8 that never became official, but I
> found the patches there helpful as a guide when I was installing 1.0.
The version I put in ports/news has a fix for the bogus file
descriptors - a fix to util.c.
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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