and that doesn't cover routers crashing/rebooting?
is there anything to be done about that?
router als ocrashes with high normal clernet traffic torrenting..
a little off topic so sorry, perhaps router ran out of file descriptors xd

On Sat, January 27, 2024 10:34 pm, open...@systemfailure.net wrote:
> i2pd has always been working fine for me with the port's default values of
> openfiles-cur=8192, openfiles-max=8192 and kern.maxfiles=16000. These values
> are probably even overkill according to i2pd's documentation.
>
> But I'm not using it for torrenting, and my router is not a floodfill. I
> guess that torrenting may exhaust available file descriptors pretty quickly.
>
> My 2 cents.
>
>
>
> On 2024-01-27 19:29 beecdadd...@danwin1210.de wrote:
>
>> ------------------------------ Original Message
>> ------------------------------
>> Subject: Re: net/i2pd: move login.conf(5) bits from README to i2pd.login
>> From:    beecdadd...@danwin1210.de
>> Date:    Sat, January 27, 2024 7:16 pm
>> To:      "Stuart Henderson" <s...@spacehopper.org>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> --
>>
>>
>
>> this software crashes all lower-bandwidth routers I tried using it on. my
>> computer crashed a few times, but probably not because of what you said.. I
>>  did have kern.maxfiles set to 65565 or something like that, which probably
>> was able to cause the crash.. so I ask how can someone check how many
>> openfiles are supported? What depends on how many you can have?
>>
>
>> i2pd is something similar to torrenting, but anonymous meaning it protects
>> us from anyone including abusive governments and people you make connection
>> to routers(other peers runing I2P software like i2pd) and do it so many
>> times how many connections you make depends on how many tunnels you allow
>> (default
>> 5000) and probably speed bandwidth
>>
>>
>
>> It can use as much as someone allows it.. which be tricky on openbsd
>> because user has to set openfiles, cannot be flexible at runtime. and no idea
>> what counts as openfile in i2pd, tunnels? routers maybe, too? so by default
>> if tunnels 5000 unchange from i2pd.conf, could up to 15k openfiles, who
>> knows?  But default speed is I think 32 KB/sec, which is very low, so almost
>> everyone increases it.
>>
>
>> would love to know how to find out what best number your computer can
>> handle openfiles, what about shminfo? maxproc? maxvnodes? somaxconn?
>>
>
>> how can find out max connections my router can handle? maybe router
>> overheat? he does same with qbittorrent, internet connection goes goodbye
>>
>
>> i2pd very very good project, worked on by Russians, they have no freedom of
>>  speech
>>
>
>> I updated to -current and I still have to set /etc/login.conf.d/i2pd
>> manually, otherwise I2Pd status is "no descriptors"
>>
>
>> so yes 8192 seems low, not excessive, is similar to running webserver maybe
>>
>>
>
>> and if OpenBSD crashes because of whoops no openfiles to give, CRASH, that
>> is bad need fix
>>
>
>> hope this helps, thanks for maintenance.

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