For Gentoo users, I have an init script which starts freenet as user and group freenet after first setting the ulimit to 4096. it might be advisable to provide instructions on this to users...
I do however think that freenet uses too many FHs for the datastore sometimes. --Brandon On Mon, 10/13/03 at 15:40:58 +0100, Toad wrote: > My node was dying repeatedly because of running out of file descriptors. > It turned out to be down to NativeFSDir having too many files open. In > the grand Freenet tradition of treating the symptoms, I have implemented > a pooled RandomAccessFile system, so that we only have the LRU <n> files > open at any given time, the others are opened when needed. Linux and > most unixes have a default maximum FDs including sockets of 1024, so I > will set the default to 256. But what should it be set to for various > forms of Windoze? Win95 has a 50 socket limit and Win98 has a 100 socket > limit IIRC, but I don't know whether that includes file handles too... > Windows NT/2K/XP apparently have no limit by default, so I can set it to > infinite. According to some win32 api docs I read ages ago. More recent > information: > "Since stdio level functions, such as fopen, are built on top of the > lowio functions, the maximum of 2,048 is a hard upper limit for the > number of simultaneously open files accessed through the C run-time > library." > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore98/html/_crt__setmaxstdio.asp > > So I will set a limit of 1024 for unrecognized Windowses. > > MacOS/X has a 256 fd limit per user by default, we set > maxNodeConnections by default to 128, so I will set maxNodeFilesOpen to > 64. > -- > Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
