cycbuff limit?

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Fri Aug 25 00:19:28 UTC 2000


Pete Ashdown <pashdown at slack.xmission.com> writes:

> I'm building a big phat news server that currently has 286 2Gig cycbuffs
> created.  INN 2.3 was dying silently until I found that it would only
> accept 215 cycbuffs, anything higher would not work.

> Is there a limit I can boost to get beyond this?

This is generally caused by a file descriptor limit.  Try increasing the
limit on open file descriptors and see if that helps any.

> Also, the reason I'm doing this is due to the maturity of raw disk
> access on Linux.  However, its been a long time since I've messed with
> that.  Has it gotten better?  Is it more desirable than 286 2Gig files?
> :-)

Haven't ever done it myself, so I'm not sure.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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