On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:07:13AM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote: > The ephemeral port range determines the maximum number of simultaneous > outbound connections that you can have. As pointed out in a PR (I don't > recall the # offhand), our low limit was probably the reason that FreeBSD > ran out of steam before the other OSes in the sysadmin benchmark last > year.
This falls in the same category as any other system tuning for questionable benchmarks. It is certainly not a compelling reason to break things. > Normally I wouldn't change settings to tune for a benchmark, but there is > no functional downside to this change. As Jacques points out, many > sysadmins with busy servers _already_ make this change, as have a few > other OSes. And it is a good change --- for a new operating system release. > Sure it is. After an installkernel you always have kernel.old sitting > around. You don't need the old kernel, anyway. You can just use the sysctl knobs. > This isn't a big deal, guys. Go find something better to make a fuss > about. Thanks for your consideration, -- Jacques A. Vidrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.nectar.cc/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos [EMAIL PROTECTED] . [EMAIL PROTECTED] . [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
