Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > Now that I want to install this in production, I have to ask about dsktune :-) > > Some of what it is telling me just seems plain incorrect. Let's have a look > > WARNING: There are only 1024 file descriptors (hard limit) available, which > limit the number of simultaneous connections. > > WARNING: There are only 1024 file descriptors (soft limit) available, which > limit the number of simultaneous connections. > > Yet : > > [root at fileserver ~]# !cat > cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max > 306460 > What does ulimit -n say? > I'm also wondering about whether or not this is really something to > worry about : > NOTICE : The net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time is set to 7200000 milliseconds > (120 minutes). This may cause temporary server congestion from lost > client connections. > > I've got 20 or so users. Is this really an issue for me? Changing > it is of course pretty trivial, but I'd rather not if I do not have > to. > It's probably not an issue if you have 20 users. It might be an issue if you have several thousand users. > thanks, > -Alan > > >