is good to know some software does require a lot of file descriptors, and you might want to get all potential out of software
On Mon, January 29, 2024 10:09 am, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2024/01/28 20:09, beecdadd...@danwin1210.de wrote: > >> why are yo uignoring my reply? 4096 doesn't cover everyone like I said >> people can become floodfills automatically and floodfills means 8192 > > If 4096 is not enough and the software requires 8192 to work (which is > above the default sysctl limit) we'd better just leave it in the readme and > not > add the login.conf.d file. Automating just half of it leaves users in a worse > position than doing nothing. > > Really the software should not assume that it has unlimited resources, > and scale back when it runs into limits. But that seems a hard concept for > some > programmers to understand. > >> >> On Sun, January 28, 2024 7:52 pm, Klemens Nanni wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 06:15:52PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On 2024/01/27 21:54, open...@systemfailure.net 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. >>> >>> Thanks for all you feedback. >>> OK? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Index: Makefile >>> =================================================================== >>> RCS file: /cvs/ports/net/i2pd/Makefile,v >>> diff -u -p -r1.22 Makefile --- Makefile 13 Jan 2024 16:21:39 -0000 >>> 1.22 +++ >>> Makefile 24 Jan 2024 22:21:26 -0000 >>> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ COMMENT = client for the I2P anonymous n >>> GH_ACCOUNT = PurpleI2P >>> GH_PROJECT = i2pd >>> GH_TAGNAME = 2.50.2 >>> +REVISION = 0 >>> >>> >>> >>> CATEGORIES = net >>> HOMEPAGE = https://i2pd.website >>> Index: pkg/PLIST >>> =================================================================== >>> RCS file: /cvs/ports/net/i2pd/pkg/PLIST,v >>> diff -u -p -r1.12 PLIST --- pkg/PLIST 20 Dec 2023 22:19:44 -0000 >>> 1.12 +++ >>> pkg/PLIST 24 Jan 2024 22:30:37 -0000 @@ -237,3 +237,7 @@ >>> share/examples/i2pd/tunnels.conf @owner _i2pd >>> @group _i2pd >>> @sample ${SYSCONFDIR}/i2pd/tunnels.conf >>> +@owner >>> +@group >>> +share/examples/login.conf.d/i2pd >>> +@sample ${SYSCONFDIR}/login.conf.d/i2pd >>> Index: pkg/README >>> =================================================================== >>> RCS file: /cvs/ports/net/i2pd/pkg/README,v >>> diff -u -p -r1.3 README --- pkg/README 8 Nov 2022 12:41:42 -0000 >>> 1.3 +++ >>> pkg/README 28 Jan 2024 19:51:52 -0000 @@ -5,20 +5,7 @@ >>> Resource Limits: File Descriptors >>> ================================= >>> >>> >>> >>> -By default, the i2pd process runs in the login(1) class of "daemon". >>> -The default limits on file descriptors are insufficient to run i2pd; >>> instead you -should put the _i2pd user and process in their own login(1) >>> class with tuned -resources. -You should also raise the system-wide >>> maxfiles limit. +You should raise the system-wide maxfiles limit: >>> >>> >>> >>> -1. Configure i2pd login class in the login.conf(5) file: >>> - >>> - i2pd:\ >>> - :openfiles-cur=8192:\ >>> - :openfiles-max=8192:\ >>> - :tc=daemon: >>> - >>> -2. Adjust kern.maxfiles, if needed: >>> - >>> - # sysctl kern.maxfiles=16000 >>> - # echo "kern.maxfiles=16000" >> /etc/sysctl.conf >>> + # sysctl kern.maxfiles=8192 >>> + # echo "kern.maxfiles=8192" >> /etc/sysctl.conf >>> Index: pkg/i2pd.login >>> =================================================================== >>> RCS file: pkg/i2pd.login >>> diff -N pkg/i2pd.login --- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000 +++ >>> pkg/i2pd.login 28 Jan 2024 19:51:32 -0000 @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ >>> +i2pd:\ >>> + :openfiles-cur=4096:\ >>> + :openfiles-max=4096:\ >>> + :tc=daemon: >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >
