From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 20 12:26:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC7FF16A47B for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:26:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from apircalabu@bitdefender.com) Received: from mail.bitdefender.com (ns.bitdefender.com [217.156.83.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5415343D73 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:26:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from apircalabu@bitdefender.com) Received: (qmail 20133 invoked by uid 1010); 20 Oct 2006 15:25:42 +0300 Received: from apircalabu.dsd.ro (10.10.15.22) by mail.bitdefender.com with SMTP; 20 Oct 2006 15:25:42 +0300 Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:26:43 +0000 From: Adi Pircalabu To: martinko Message-ID: <20061020122643.1ac5d0df@apircalabu.dsd.ro> In-Reply-To: <4538BCF2.2030408@pobox.sk> References: <4538BCF2.2030408@pobox.sk> Organization: BitDefender X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.2 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BitDefender-Scanner: Clean, Agent: BitDefender qmail 2.0.0 on mail.bitdefender.com X-BitDefender-SpamStamp: v1, bayes score: 500, neunet score: 500 X-BitDefender-Spam: No (0) Cc: freebsd-kde@freebsd.org, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: kern.maxfiles exceeded soon after KDE or Gnome started X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:26:50 -0000 On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:11:30 +0200 martinko wrote: > I've installed KDE 3.5.4 and Gnome 2.14 on a new GENERIC installation > of 6.2-PRERELEASE. > Both desktop environments syslog error about exceeding kern.maxfiles > limit soon after their started. > While with Window Maker and many open apps, and even with Xfce 4.2, I > usually have between 200 to 500 kern.openfiles, kern.maxfiles > (defaults to 1064) is obviously too low for KDE/Gnome or I'm running > into an issue or sth. > As I haven't noticed recommendation on kern.maxfiles on project pages > nor during installation of the ports, I'd like to ask the community > what are the sane recommended numbers ?? See /usr/ports/devel/gamin/pkg-message on how to handle this. -- Adi Pircalabu (PGP Key ID 0x04329F5E) -- This message was scanned for viruses by BitDefender for Linux Mail Servers. For more information please visit http://www.bitdefender.com/