Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:17:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Jayson Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Questions on file descriptors and squid
Good day,
I have a pc which I am going to turn into one of our siblings proxy servers. The squid book says, the file descriptor values should not go below 1024.
Qestion1: Do you know how do freebsd 4.10 sets its default(fresh install) file descriptor value? For example, here are the components of the workstation I am installing squid into.
Pentium III 600 MHz 64 MB SD RAM 15 GB hard disk
When I run 'sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc' this value appeared:
kern.maxfilesperproc: 957
so, it already violates the squids recommended
settings which should be not less than 1024 file
descriptor(Squid: The Definitive Guide -Duane
Wessels).
On the other hand, another workstation of mine with the following components...
256 DDR PC333 Athlon XP 2000 80 GB seagate harddisk
...shows its file descriptor as
beebop>>sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc kern.maxfilesperproc: 3636
Qestion2: both of the kern.maxfiles and
kern.maxfilesperproc's values are changeable and so, how will I know what is the maximum value I can set
them to(with regards to my hardware setup)?
All these variables depend on maxusers option in your kernel config file. Look at /usr/src/sys/kern/subr_param.c to find how they are calculated.
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