On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 12:27:24PM -0400, Edward J. Huff wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 12:04, lowmagnet wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:40:58PM +0100, Toad wrote:
> > > MacOS/X has a 256 fd limit per user by default, we set
> > > maxNodeConnections by default to 128, so I will set maxNodeFilesOpen to
> > > 64.
> > 
> > Would it not be better to ask the OS what its current ulimit is before 
> > making such assumptions? I run my node with 'ulimit -n 1024' in the 
> > start-freenet script, as recommended on some of the performance docs. 
> > I'd hate to see freenet limiting itself outside the user's control. 
> > 
> This reminds me of some discussion of qmail vs. sendmail.  qmail
> author says use the standard tools like ulimit, while sendmail 
> re-implements them...  Or something like that...

Oh, don't get me wrong. I don't care how it's done, just so long as it doesn't become 
someting that mysteriously hinders a platform because its uname matches a magick 
string. THAT is what I'm more concered about.


> 
> -- Ed Huff
> 



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