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From: adoane@eagle.ais.net (Andrew J. Doane)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: max network connections
Date: 25 Jul 1995 04:42:34 GMT
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kostick christopher (kostick@umbc.edu) wrote:
: I have machine running BSD/OS 2.0 and I want to increase the number of
: simultaneous network connections. At most, right now, I'm getting
: around 87 tcp entries in the netstat table (79 established and 8 in
: the listen state; also 5 udp entries). When I reach that many I start
: getting 'connection refused' when trying to go to the host.
: Is there a tunable parameter where i can remake my kernel to support
: more connections? any and all help is appreciated?
: --
: chris
Recompile the kernel with MAX_USERS set to >50 or so. I've got one
machine with MAX_USERS set to 100 and this brought the FD limit over
1,000 and TCP connects ~256.
/ajd/
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