Memory allocation problems (ZFS/NFS/amd64)

[Claus Guttesen]

> > I've just tried using the echo service from inetd, and the server
> > is keeping 1024 established
> > connections without that error. I just don't understand why this
> > can fail with Apache, but it seems it's an issue with -current, as
> > we have a similar setup with 6.2(i386), same hardware, and it works.
>
> Here's what I've found out. Apache was confgured by a different
> person, and I didn't notice that the MaxClients parameter was set too
> low (159).
>
> Setting it up to a high value (1024) has made those errors disappear.
> So that "memory limit" was actually that the system was dropping
> connection requests from the listen queue. The error message is quite
> looks misleading to me. At least I had never seen it, so it caught me
> by surprise.

Thank you. I was planning to upgrade our file/samba server with
current from June 11'th next week to get the latest enhancements
related to zfs. And with 5 TB in use the last thing I needed was
dropped connections. :-)

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regards
Claus

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom,
the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner.

Shakespeare