max open files vs max sockets

[David Forrest]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote:

> At Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:06:13 -0600 (CST),
> David Forrest <drf at maplepark.com> wrote:
>
>> On startup of named 9.6.0 I get the following message:
>>
>> Jan 17 11:55:20 maplepark named[13014]: max open files (1024) is smaller than max sockets (4096)
>>
>> Is this a problem for a small internal network dns server?
>
> It depends on the definition of 'a small internal network dns server',
> but I'd say 'no, it's not a problem per se' unless you see run-time
> warning messages like a failure of opening a socket.
>
> ---
Good. Thanks. It appears to be a kernel bug fixed in 2.6.28. I'm running 
2.6.27.9 now and will update as soon as F9 releases it.

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David Forrest
St. Louis, Missouri