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+#ifndef _FSP_SERVER_CONF_H_
+#define _FSP_SERVER_CONF_H_ 1
+
+/****************************************************************************
+ * Set this to the location of the fspd.conf file on your system            *
+ ****************************************************************************/
+#define CONF_FILE SYSCONFDIR "/fspd.conf"
+
+/****************************************************************************
+ * Set this value to the maximum number of open files you wish your system  *
+ * to keep around at any given time.  The smaller this number is, the more  *
+ * likely the server is to be opening and closing files, but the less file  *
+ * descriptors need to be taken up by the server itself                     *
+ * Five seems to work reasonably well on my system                          *
+ ****************************************************************************/
+#ifdef HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H
+#include <sys/resource.h>
+#endif
+
+/****************************************************************************
+ * DEFAULT_DIRLISTCACHE_SIZE should be set to contain the number of         *
+ * listings you want to held in memory cache. Dirlisting needs a lot of     *
+ * syscalls, so it should be set to some higher number.                     *
+ * Following setting is a minimum recommended size.                         *
+ ****************************************************************************/
+
+#define DEFAULT_DIRLISTCACHE_SIZE 32
+
+/****************************************************************************
+ * DEFAULT_DIRSTATCACHE_SIZE should be set to contain the number of dirs    *
+ * you want to held in dirstat memory cache. This cache avoids calling stat *
+ * on directory and loading access perms. This operation is far less 
+ * expensive than listing a directory, so if can be a lower number.
+ */
+
+#define DEFAULT_DIRSTATCACHE_SIZE 20 
+
+/* THCCOUNT is the number of seconds used to compute average throughput.
+ * 10 seconds seems to be a good value
+ */
+#define THCCOUNT 10
+
+#endif /* _FSP_SERVER_CONF_H_ */