On 2024/01/27 21:54, openbsd@systemfailure.net wrote:
> According to i2pd's online documentation [1], the maximum number of open file descriptors is 4096 for a regular node, and 8192 for a floodfill [2].
> 
> I have never measured how many FDs i2pd is really using, but this software for sure needs a lot of them.
> 
> So I guess we can set 4096 as default value, and inform users in the README file that this value should be raised to 8192 for floodfills.

4096 doesn't seem too unreasonable, it's below default levels of
kern.maxfiles, so if that's enough for the software I'd be happy with
setting that in a login.conf.d file.