Friday, June 29, 2018

Re: tor: install doc/TUNING

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 01:47:23PM +0200, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28 2018, Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org> wrote:
> > Stumbled across the following error on a new relay:
> >
> > Failing because we have 991 connections already. Please read doc/TUNING for guidance.
> >
> > This document contains information about `kern.maxfiles' (sysctl) and
> > `openfiles-max' (login.conf).
>
> I worry that this file hardcodes numbers that are likely to change, *shrug*
It contains suggestions from upstream, not only for OpenBSD but other
platforms in general. If relevant at all, tor operators should take the
mentioned limits with a grain of salt either ways, so I refrained from
doing any modifications whatsoever to that part of documentation.

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