On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Thomas Frell  wrote:

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> I run an icecast server which may grow into 10 000 listeners or more.

>  Are their any "gotchas" that I might need to patch change with sysctl?

>  I've changed kern.maxfiles and wondering if I could run out of TCP

>  sockets, or file descriptors, or something else I may have missed?

>  Aiming for high availability, so I am trying to be proactive and find

>  limits before clients find limits.

>

>  Currently around 4 000 listeners hasn't posed any problems.

Might look into max states.  Older version of OBSD have a max of

10,000 (tunable via pf).
-B