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,
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Toni Andjelkovic
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