[Mldonkey-users] Re: NetBSD-Mystery and how i solved it

[Sven Hartge]

Karsten Kruse <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sven Hartge wrote:
 
>> 1) Find out, what the max. number of file descriptors a process may use
>> under NetBSD

> ulimit -n is 64

THis is _very_ low, at least, if you want to properly run _any_
file-sharing tool.

Since under Unix, everything is a file, you need an FD for every file
you upload, for every file you donwload, for every connection you have
open and for every port you listen on. (Not counting the libraries you
link to).

So 64 barely leaves any room for the actual downloading or uploading.

The Linux default is 1024 here, so you better dramatically increase this
value.

S°

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