From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 4 8:50:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD1FA14E9D for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 08:50:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA81141; Tue, 4 May 1999 17:50:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 17:50:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer To: Fadi Sodah Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File-Descriptors In-Reply-To: <372EFA2D.B1FFCF19@qatar.net.qa> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 May 1999, Fadi Sodah wrote: > how do i know how many file descriptors (FDs)=20 > i have on my machine, and how do i increase them?=20 sysctl kern.maxfiles returns the maximal number of files that can be opened. sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=3D2048 sets the limit to 2048 (e.g.). Regards // // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ _____= __=20 // Gesellschaft f=FCr wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __= / _ \ // Datenverarbeitung mbH G=D6ttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/= // / // Am Fa=DFberg, D-37077 G=D6ttingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___= /____/=20 // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to Serve ----= - // http://www.freebsd.org // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de // To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message