RE: Max cfservd connections

[Mark Burgess]

It is easily removed. It was supposed to be helpful. I shall multiply
the number by ten. 
M

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 11:51 -0700, Martin, Jason H wrote:
> Even with a fully loaded Sun F15K with several GigE interfaces and some
> really fast storage?
> 
> OK, I wish I had that, but there are all kinds of possibilities :> At a
> minimum the cap should be documented, but preferably removed entirely.
> 
> -Jason Martin
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Burgess [mailto:Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 11:46 AM
> > To: David Masterson
> > Cc: Martin, Jason H; help-cfengine@gnu.org
> > Subject: RE: Max cfservd connections
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Anyone with such a system would be out of their mind to 
> > expect a single machine to cope with such a load,
> > 
> > M
> > 
> > On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 10:52 -0700, David Masterson wrote:
> > > A large system with many network connections in an environment 
> > > supporting thousands of machines and (for whatever reason) 
> > no use of 
> > > SplayTime?
> > > 
> > > Also consider the reverse -- a tightly controlled *small* 
> > system that 
> > > a user wants to severely limit the maxprocesses to prevent 
> > runaways, 
> > > so he lowers maxprocesses.
> > > 
> > > Mark Burgess wrote:
> > > > Fair enough - it was meant to be a silly number. I did not 
> > > > anticipate anyone contemplating this. I would be 
> > interested to know 
> > > > he circumstances in which it is actual to expect 1000 simulaneous 
> > > > connections to a single machine.
> > > > 
> > > > M
> > > > 
> > > > On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 10:13 -0700, David Masterson wrote:
> > > >> Arbitrary numbers should be configuration items.  ;-)
> > > >> 
> > > >> Mark Burgess wrote:
> > > >>> This is just an arbitrary number. Most systems will not 
> > want to go 
> > > >>> higher -- but if you do, then change it. M
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 16:14 -0700, Martin, Jason H wrote:
> > > >>>> I'm curious, does anyone know why cfservd is limited to 1000 
> > > >>>> concurrent connections?
> > > >>>> 
> > > >>>>> From the latest cfservd.c:
> > > >>>> if ((CFD_MAXPROCESSES < 1) || (CFD_MAXPROCESSES > 
> > 1000))       {
> > > >>>>       FatalError("cfservd MaxConnections with silly 
> > value");      
> > > >>>> }
> > > >>>> 
> > > >>>> Thank you,
> > > >>>> -Jason Martin
> > > 
> > 
> >