can we stop thinking of 4096 because i2pd software routers can automatically become floodfilles so is 8192 at lowest, this is future-proof
and other replies I sent should indicate possibly much more, no one answered yet, I do not understand OpenBSD well but something tells me each record of a i2pd software router has it's own file descriptor, I did some programming in past so this makes sense to me am I wrong? On Sun, January 28, 2024 6:15 pm, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2024/01/27 21:54, [email protected] wrote: > >> According to i2pd's online documentation [1], the maximum number of open >> file descriptors is 4096 for a regular node, and 8192 for a floodfill [2]. >> >> I have never measured how many FDs i2pd is really using, but this software >> for sure needs a lot of them. >> >> So I guess we can set 4096 as default value, and inform users in the README >> file that this value should be raised to 8192 for floodfills. > > 4096 doesn't seem too unreasonable, it's below default levels of > kern.maxfiles, so if that's enough for the software I'd be happy with setting > that in a login.conf.d file. > >
