widelinks && performance

[Jeremy Allison]

Andrew, I know you were interested in the Apache problem
in the Mindcraft benchmark (off topic, I know :-).

Soeone posted this on Linux Today.

> I have solved their Apache collapse problem. To solve it, they need to do this:
> 
>      echo 4096 >/proc/sys/kernel/file_max
>      echo 5120 >/proc/sys/kernel/inode_max
> 
>      Yep, they were running out of file handles! So Apache was trying to accept() a connection (which uses a
>      file handle), the accept() was failing, and it appeared to the outside observer that the whole bloody server
>      had fallen to pieces.
> 
>      And these idjits weren't smart enough to notice that /var/log/messages was full of "kernel: no file"
>      messages, sigh. 


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