From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 22 08:14:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AA5E16A47E for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:14:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nvass@teledomenet.gr) Received: from matrix.teledomenet.gr (dns1.teledomenet.gr [213.142.128.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5F97443AB for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:14:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvass@teledomenet.gr) Received: from iris ([192.168.1.71]) by matrix.teledomenet.gr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k5M8E4EY026703; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:14:04 +0300 From: Nikos Vassiliadis To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:10:11 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060622001205.L85604@trex.centroin.com.br> In-Reply-To: <20060622001205.L85604@trex.centroin.com.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606221110.11848.nvass@teledomenet.gr> Cc: scuba@centroin.com.br Subject: Re: How to raise the limit for sockets X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:14:33 -0000 On Thursday 22 June 2006 06:12, scuba@centroin.com.br wrote: > Hi all, > > How can I raise the file descriptors limits for each socket in > FBSD 5.4? Each socket is a descriptor. I guess you need something like: from limits(1): -n [val] Select or set the openfiles resource limit. The system-wide limit on the maximum number of open files per process can be viewed by examining the kern.maxfilesperproc sysctl(8) vari- able. The total number of simultaneously open files in the entire system is limited to the value displayed by the kern.maxfiles sysctl(8) variable. --[snip]-- SEE ALSO csh(1), env(1), limit(1), sh(1), getrlimit(2), setrlimit(2), login_cap(3), login.conf(5), sysctl(8)