Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 16:58:58 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, andrew@squiz.co.nz, Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Bob K <melange@yip.org>, The Lab <thelab@nmarcom.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: too many open files Message-ID: <199809061559.QAA07106@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 06 Sep 1998 06:53:54 PDT." <199809061354.GAA00979@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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> > > between sysctl and login.conf, either can be set without a rebuild.
> >
> > No. The kern.maxfiles sysctl shouldn't be writable in 2.2, and it's
> > not writable in 3.0; it refers to the size of a static table.
>
> I've been setting kern.maxfiles on 2.2 systems for well over a year,
> possibly even two years. It seems like it would be a step backwards
> for 3.0 to require a kernel rebuild to set this value.
Indeed:
woof:/usr/src $ uname -a
FreeBSD woof.lan.awfulhak.org 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #17: Sat Sep 5 03:02:51 BST 1998 brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/WOOF i386
woof:/usr/src $ fgrep maxusers /sys/i386/conf/WOOF
maxusers 15
woof:/usr/src $ cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/0000files.sh
#! /bin/sh
echo -n ' maxfiles';
sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=2048
sysctl -w kern.maxfilesperproc=128
woof:/usr/src $ pstat -T
136/2048 files
30M/199M swap space
> Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437
> Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766
> Open Systems Group Internet: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca
> ITSD Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca
> Government of BC
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