From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 14 3:58:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C89637B400 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 03:58:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a109.otenet.gr [212.205.215.109]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f0EBwIE21029; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 13:58:18 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0EB7fo04475; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 13:07:41 +0200 (EET) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 13:07:41 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: f f Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IRC and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010114130741.B4391@hades.hell.gr> References: <20010114051220.18407.qmail@web9108.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20010114051220.18407.qmail@web9108.mail.yahoo.com>; from smowball99@yahoo.com on Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 09:12:20PM -0800 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 09:12:20PM -0800, f f wrote: > > Hello > > Hello, first has anyone successfully been able to > run a IRC Server on FreeBSD beyond the 1024 user > limit? > if you have is there any documentation out there that > explains how to raise this limit above 1024? You might want to bump the MAXUSERS option of your kernel, and recompile. If you only hit the file descriptor limit, tweaking the following sysctls might get you where you want. kern.maxfiles: 2048 kern.maxfilesperproc: 2048 If you change these with a command like: # sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=2048 then you might also find it useful to store their new values in /etc/sysctl.conf so that they will be set to these new values upon the next system boot too. Do it now, do not wait until the next reboot, because you might not remember this change when the system boots :) - giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message