On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 04:42:42PM -0700, Scott Hess wrote:
> Urk! I don't mean to be insulting, but the notion that you would roll
> _any_ solution out for a problem of this size based on word of mouth freaks
> the crap out of me.
Hey ! You guys seem to have pretty strict opinions about how to solve problems.
Right now I am just investigating the options and asking for the properties of
this FreeBSD OS (where news is not the only reason for finding out about them).
> If you have a genuine need for 500Gig of news spool,
This is roughly 10 days of newsfeed, btw.
> and enough users that mmap'ed I/O in nntp is needed and the number of file
> descriptors is going to be a problem, and you're willing to change
I would like to know if that number of file descriptors is going to be a
problem, could someone tell me please ? It appears that 2^17 are settable
through sysctl, but will I actually be able to use that many ? (Yes, I could
write a tool to find it out, but I am willing to rely on word of mouth here).
Thanks,
Michael
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