From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 23:18:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ABF91065796 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:18:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rameshayyagari@yahoo.com) Received: from n27.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (n27.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.222]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 461D58FC13 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:18:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rameshayyagari@yahoo.com) Received: from [209.191.108.96] by n27.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 18 Nov 2008 23:05:12 -0000 Received: from [68.142.201.243] by t3.bullet.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 18 Nov 2008 23:05:12 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp404.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 18 Nov 2008 23:05:12 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 877493.81486.bm@omp404.mail.mud.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 37171 invoked by uid 60001); 18 Nov 2008 23:05:12 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=oEKKDL5D7bxA3nTAbn4a76wg06fFgJzMfl74uPtp+wEOKMz3wF33AAeVnGQNIaqJ1wGu2ZdwZbxglbTc5frvMYAlGOIE6xVek83peLaGo5IIKqkStXL5HAS0TWYKEGt2rQHd7qBCcWpjG//rqULw1etF33fJ0cUNKGAU8ChzeMQ=; X-YMail-OSG: dLKHbyMVM1kv10TLwnQEVKOjtVEsVFKMasmichOdRghr1lFQ8eJm46DkKX_vCiuxOSvJ3lwKPaTL2qwD5Iq8CzdLWsVLqmzgqgMxKTytZq.03AerN8Gg7.pudoPwbGKsldiInXA- Received: from [168.61.10.145] by web111109.mail.gq1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:05:12 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/1155.32 YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:05:12 -0800 (PST) From: Ramesh Ayyagari To: stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <436595.20263.qm@web111109.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:59:57 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: What would be the appropriate value for kern.maxfiles X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:18:37 -0000 Hello All, I have my client system running FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 with 4 GB of RAM. This morning i have the following errors popping up on the console log - postfix/qmgr[94057]: fatal: socket: Too many open files Googling for this error, I found this is someway related to the kernel parameter kern.maxflies and increasing this value can have errors go away. The present value of this parameter is 24000. I also found this also depends of the RAM we have on the system. what would the appropriate value for kern.maxfiles for a system having 2GB RAM, a system having 4 GB and a system having 16GB of RAM. Please help -Ram