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Re: Too many filehandles
--On Tuesday, June 14, 2005 12:06 PM +0100 rob fielding <rob@dsvr.net>
wrote:
Replying to myself,
Increased 'threads' from 64 to 256, added a new index, then for each 5
minutes, ran this:
I would guess that increasing the threads to insane numbers like you've
done is going to cause some amount of instability. You should only play
with the threads variable very very carefully. The default of 16 is
generally fine, and increasing it past that rarely if ever has any positive
impact on performance.
--Quanah
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