Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:30:43 -0500 From: "Gerald T. Freymann" <freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Steven Duckworth" <sduckworth@aug.edu> Subject: Re: Sendmail - setting number of open files Message-ID: <02b401c16229$65999630$0f01a8c0@phantom> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011031093001.02bda9b8@ns1.aug.edu>
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>The problem I have is when someone sends something to >a list with many users I get the error "To many open files in >system". Issuing the command sysctl -a I see that the kern.maxfiles is >1064. Does anyone have any experience with tweeking these settings for >use with sendmail? How about addit to /etc/sysctl.conf kern.maxfiles=2048 That will it stick when you reboot. You'd also have to issue the command from the command line to try and make it so immediately. -gf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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