From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 6 11:44:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12896 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 11:44:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles157.castles.com [208.214.165.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA12802 for ; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 11:43:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA09624; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 11:48:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809061848.LAA09624@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group cc: Mike Smith , andrew@squiz.co.nz, Tom , The Hermit Hacker , Bob K , The Lab , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: too many open files In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 06 Sep 1998 06:53:54 PDT." <199809061354.GAA00979@cwsys.cwsent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 11:48:51 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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. Bleagh. I appear to have come unstuck somewhere; 'maxfiles' doesn't refer to a static table, and kern.maxfiles is still writable. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message