Re: What would be the appropriate value for kern.maxfiles
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Ramesh Ayyagari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my server primarily runs postfix experiencing very huge inflow of mails 6 per hour. There are some other services that the servers runs like caching DNS etc but postfix being the primary application running on it. Ram 1.) Please don't top-post. 2.) I gave you an example. You obviously know what your server is doing, so you need to adjust the tunable accordingly. You can always set the number too high, then slim it down from there after testing to see what meets your requirements. -- Glen Barber If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What would be the appropriate value for kern.maxfiles
my server primarily runs postfix experiencing very huge inflow of mails 6 per hour. There are some other services that the servers runs like caching DNS etc but postfix being the primary application running on it. Ram From: Glen Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ramesh Ayyagari [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:43:56 PM Subject: Re: What would be the appropriate value for kern.maxfiles On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Ramesh Ayyagari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have my client system running FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 with 4 GB of RAM. This morning i have the following errors popping up on the console log - postfix/qmgr[94057]: fatal: socket: Too many open files Googling for this error, I found this is someway related to the kernel parameter kern.maxflies and increasing this value can have errors go away. The present value of this parameter is 24000. I also found this also depends of the RAM we have on the system. what would the appropriate value for kern.maxfiles for a system having 2GB RAM, a system having 4 GB and a system having 16GB of RAM. Please help The Xorg meta-package recommends 'kern.maxfiles=25000' for a desktop system. This is a situation where it really depends on what you're using your system for. HTH -- Glen Barber 570.328.0318 If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What would be the appropriate value for kern.maxfiles
Hello All, I have my client system running FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 with 4 GB of RAM. This morning i have the following errors popping up on the console log - postfix/qmgr[94057]: fatal: socket: Too many open files Googling for this error, I found this is someway related to the kernel parameter kern.maxflies and increasing this value can have errors go away. The present value of this parameter is 24000. I also found this also depends of the RAM we have on the system. what would the appropriate value for kern.maxfiles for a system having 2GB RAM, a system having 4 GB and a system having 16GB of RAM. Please help -Ram ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What would be the appropriate value for kern.maxfiles
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Ramesh Ayyagari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have my client system running FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 with 4 GB of RAM. This morning i have the following errors popping up on the console log - postfix/qmgr[94057]: fatal: socket: Too many open files Googling for this error, I found this is someway related to the kernel parameter kern.maxflies and increasing this value can have errors go away. The present value of this parameter is 24000. I also found this also depends of the RAM we have on the system. what would the appropriate value for kern.maxfiles for a system having 2GB RAM, a system having 4 GB and a system having 16GB of RAM. Please help The Xorg meta-package recommends 'kern.maxfiles=25000' for a desktop system. This is a situation where it really depends on what you're using your system for. HTH -- Glen Barber 570.328.0318 If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --Scott Adams ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
