SUMMARY: xinetd limits ?

[Michael J McCafferty <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No summary, not one single response to the question. Sorry for a 
no-summary. My question must be flawed, or the list must be dying. This is 
contrary to my long ago experience with sunmanagers.

At 09:08 AM 6/17/2005 -0700, Michael J McCafferty wrote:
>All,
>
>     I have a few systems that are using xinetd for various things. One is an
>IMAP mail server, another is a Nagios server that is accepting check
>results from
>other Nagios servers (distributed Nagios servers).
>     I have had the following messages in my messages file:
>
>Jun 16 09:05:03 mail xinetd[2108]: Deactivating service imap due to excessive
>incoming connections.  Restarting in 30 seconds.
>Jun 16 09:05:33 mail xinetd[2108]: Activating service imap
>Jun 16 09:41:11 mail xinetd[2108]: Deactivating service imap due to excessive
>incoming connections.  Restarting in 30 seconds.
>Jun 16 09:41:41 mail xinetd[2108]: Activating service imap
>
>     I have adjusted the number of connections in xinetd.conf and solved the
>problem. What I want to know is the practical limit on the number of
>connections for xinetd. The default in the system (RHEL3) was 60 instances,
>with 25 connections per second. But, that seems awfully low.
>     I am trying to gauge the scalability of the systems while using xinetd. I
>will investigate using the daemon to listen directly without xinetd. But 
>in the
>meantime, what is the practical limit and factors that affect that limit, for
>xinetd ?
>
>Your thoughts ?
>
>Thanks,
>Mike
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