Has anybody ever run into the following problem:
On an IRIX 6.5 machine we run sshd. This is an interactive machine that can
have over a couple hundres users on it at the same time. We noticed when
over 150 or so users were using ssh to connect to it nothing else could
open a handle on the syslog file. We talked to the onsite SGI rep and
he found out that there is a hard limit on the number of open file handles
to syslog (and maybe all files?). The limit is 152 in the normal kernel.
Rather than trying to tweak it I ended up patching ssh-1.2.26 so that it
will open and close the syslog whenever it has to log something. If
anybody is interested you can find the patch at:
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/CC/ssh/ssh_ncsa_mods.html
along with a few other patches we had to add.
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James J. Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
System Engineer
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
605 East Springfield Avenue Voice : (217)244-6403
Champaign, IL 61820 Cell : (217)840-0601
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/People/jbarlow Fax : (217)244-1987
