* Thomas Frell <thomasfrell@yahoo.ca> [2008-04-21 02:15:29]:

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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.
> 
> Thanks for any input you may have.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Tom
> 
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Also see login.conf(5) and ulimit.

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