From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 31 8:28:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marlo.eagle.ca (marlo.eagle.ca [209.167.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64C0D37B403 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:28:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from phantom (staff.eagle.ca [209.167.16.15]) by marlo.eagle.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f9VGP8T00690; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:25:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu) Message-ID: <02b401c16229$65999630$0f01a8c0@phantom> From: "Gerald T. Freymann" To: , "Steven Duckworth" References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011031093001.02bda9b8@ns1.aug.edu> Subject: Re: Sendmail - setting number of open files Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:30:43 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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