Squirrel
2009-Mar-17 13:41 UTC
general: warning: max open files (3636) is smaller than maxsockets (4096)
Nice!!! Thank you. ----------------------- PCShare.Com -----Original message----- From: David Kelly dkelly@hiwaay.net Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:32:10 -0600 To: Squirrel squirrel@mail.isot.com Subject: Re: general: warning: max open files (3636) is smaller than maxsockets (4096)> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:31:43PM -0600, Squirrel wrote: > > This happend since I've upgraded bind 9.21 to 9.6.0. I've increased > > the max open files to 4096: > > > > sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=4096 > > > > which shows it resized from 4040->4096 > > > > But I guess it's different for bind? I've googled and found several > > references to this warning message, but everyone states it's not a > > problem and shouldn't be concerned. Some real advice would be > > appreciated. > > Depends a lot as to how busy your name server is, I guess. > > Mine is a lightly loaded in internal office use. When my PII 450 MHz > 192MB machine issued similar complaint on upgrade of bind I was tricked > into rebooting a machine with over 800 days uptime only to get the exact > same message again. > > So I limited the number of sockets named would ask for using this in > /etc/rc.conf: > > named_flags="-4 -S 1024" > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net > =======================================================================> Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >