Dave Hodgkinson wrote on Fri, Dec 14 2001 (20:54:22 +0000): > "Perrin Harkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > According to something I once read by David Filo, Yahoo also had to tweak > > the FreeBSD code because they had trouble scaling *TCP/IP*! I would say > > their experience is not typical. > > Increasing the number of file handles, I'd wager. That was an issue on
you really don't have to tweak any FreeBSD code for that, just do sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=100000 and the file table will grow up to the new limit. > 2.x linux kernels too. that was an issue with 2.0.x, since 2.2.x you can do it with echo 100000 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max cheers, -- Toni Andjelkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>