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Commit 3409e2cb authored by David Vasek's avatar David Vasek
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doc: mention the necessity to configure enough file descriptors

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1 merge request!1152Requestor and other error reporting, XFR failover logic, document needed file descriptors
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The user should try increasing the number of workers (of the related type) slightly above 100 and if
the performance gets better, he can decide about further exact setting.
Number of available file descriptors
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A name server configured for higher number of zones (hundreds and more) needs enough file descriptors
available for zone transfers and zone file updates, which a default OS setting often doesn't provide.
It's necessary to check with the OS configuration and documentation and make sure the number of file
descriptors (sometimes called a number of concurrently open files) effective for the knotd process
is set high enough. The number of concurrently open incoming TCP connections must be taken into
account too, in other words, the required setting is affected by the :ref:`server_tcp-max-clients`
setting.
Sysctl and NIC optimizations
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