On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since it's hard to predict peak usage, I'm tempted to run the daemon with > the -n0 option so it can spawn as required. However, a colleague has > pointed out that if something blows up then spawn-on-demand could kill the > server - with a fixed-size pool, auth requests would fail but the system > would keep going.
At CMU, before we went to using the doors IPC method (due to unix domain socket issues under load on solaris), we used a value for -n of 2x our 5 minute connection rate peak (which we have from historical graphs). If you are on Solaris, I highly recommend the doors IPC method over the UNIX socket method, since we began to see very bizarre problems under load. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
