* The Hermit Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020420 16:01] wrote: > > > As a quick follow-up to this, doing more searching on the web, I came > across a few suggested 'sysctl' settings, which I've added to what I had > before, for a total of: > > kern.maxfiles=65534 > jail.sysvipc_allowed=1 > vm.swap_idle_enabled=1 > vfs.vmiodirenable=1 > kern.ipc.somaxconn=4096 > > I've also just reduced my maxusers to 256 from 1024, since 1024 was > crashing worse then 512, and I ran across the 'tuning' man page that > stated that you shouldn't go above 256 :( > > Just a bit more detail on the setup ...
You said you're running 5000 processes. 5000 processes of what? Are they useing SYSVSHM? If so, this sysctl might help: kern.ipc.shm_use_phys=1 It'll only work if you set it before your processes setup. Some more information about what these 5000 processes are doing would help. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message