maximum number of FD events

[Chuck Swiger]

On Oct 25, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Fr34k wrote:
> We found someone else who seemed to suggest a "fix" by increasing the number of sockets.
> We figured we would give that a shot and see what would happen.  We tried 128, and then 256 -- but we still see these messages:
>   named[14050]: [ID 873579 daemon.info] sockmgr 288760: maximum number of FD events (128) received
>   named[15910]: [ID 873579 daemon.info] sockmgr 288760: maximum number of FD events (256) received
> 
> Does anyone have more information, suggestions, comments?

Yes, named probably wants 256 - 1024 filedescriptors as a reasonable lower bounds, depending on load.  Busy nameservers might well define FD_SETSIZE higher, to 4096 for example.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck