FreeBSD +NFS + mail services

[David Gilbert]

>>>>> "Francisco" == Francisco Reyes <lists at stringsutils.com> writes:

Francisco> I am more concerned with having more connections than
Francisco> needed on the server... specially as the number of clients
Francisco> increase.

I think that's delt with just fine by the limit on the maximum number
of them.

Francisco> Thanks to Darren Pilgrim I decreased sysctl
Francisco> vfs.nfs.iodmaxidle to 30 instead of 120. That way those nfs
Francisco> client programs will only wait 30 seconds of idle time
Francisco> before dissapearing.
  
Francisco> I am also considering setting the upper limit for clients
Francisco> to 10.

Remember that, in the end, this is really just a limit on
parallelism.  I remember some wizdom from way back when that you
wanted this number around 2x to 4x the number of actual spools
servicing things as there really wasn't any point in growing it
further.

Dave.

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