On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * 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
Okay, never knew of that one before ... have it set for the next reboot, as I do have a few postgresql servers going on the 'root (non-jail)' server ... > It'll only work if you set it before your processes setup. > > Some more information about what these 5000 processes are doing > would help. Sorry ... the server is running ~210 jails ... so the '5k processes' would be when they all start up their periodic scripts ... normally, it hovers around 2700 processes ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message