[cobalt-users] Anonymous FTP - Overload

["IDM Computer Solutions, Inc." <idm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I have a RAQ2 with 64 MB Ram.  I rent this, it's not actually on site.

My primary purpose is to support a single site which gets several thousand 
visitors per day and a lot of anonymous downloads.

When I release a new version of my software my site receives a lot of 
traffic as in the case today.

For most of the day users have complained that they can not FTP the files.

I have allowed anywhere from 150-1000 concurrent anonymous users yet at any 
time using 'ps' I only see 20-40 (max) proftpd processes running and the 
xferlog shows certainly no more activity.

Meanwhile, I have verified it's almost impossible to download the files.  I 
get various messages from the site not found with FTP to the File not found.

Earlier in the day I had an error that there were too many files open and I 
changed the setting for this from 1024 to 3072 and restarted the FTP server 
(I know it may not be necessary).

If anyone has any information relating to this I would appreciate it.

Thanks, Ian