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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!noos.hooked.net!news1.best.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: High-end FreeBSD server config suggestions needed please Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 19:41:28 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 27 Message-ID: <323EFEE8.C0B@www.play-hookey.com> References: <DxuqK0.ID8@hparc12.aus.hp.com> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) To: M C Wong <mcw@aus.hp.com> M C Wong wrote: > > Hi, > I will soon need a couple of very powerful server running FreeBSD > (perhaps 2.1.5), and it will be NFS, mail, DNS, NNTP, firewall, HTTP, > FTP, login, router etc server. I have in mind about 4GB disk space and > 32MB RAM to start off with. > > However I remember someone saying that to support large numbers of > logins etc, the kernel needs to be configured differently for various > parameters. If so, can the kind person please reply to me for the > appropriate instructions/changes to the kernel etc ? > > Thanks in advance, and please CC by email if reply to the group. [CC sent] RT Handbook on recompiling the kernel. The parameter you're thinking of is called MAXUSERS, and is used to set up various tables. In particular, this parameter defines the maximum number of concurrent processes the system will support (calculation in the Handbook). -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |