Re: spamd [-c maxcon]

[Daniel Ouellet]

Bob Beck wrote:
spamd(8) says the default is 800, which is actually a compiled-in
limit and is quite generous for most situations. The consequences of
raising it are not immediately obvious, but I imagine could be
entertaining.

        because if you go much beyond it you need to consider things like
kern.maxfiles, etc. etc. 

        Making spamd want to use more file descriptors than the kernel can
give you is usually not advisable. the hard limit of 800 is a
conservative safe upper bound for a stock OpenBSD system running GENERIC.

        -Bob

Thanks for the update. I understand that. Not a complain what so ever, 
but just a thought that may be the man page should include the default 
of 800 to be also the max allow. Again, not a big deal really. I didn't 
think of checking the code this time as usually OpenBSD never preset 
default to max value. That's what I am used to anyway. When I read the 
man page and saw the default to be 800, I was puzzle by not be able to 
increase it beyond that.

I should have thought of it obviously.

Thanks for correcting me!

Daniel