Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 07:42:49 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: f f <smowball99@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: *Help* limits on FreeBSD Message-ID: <14949.41305.490780.779723@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <113814623@toto.iv>
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f f <smowball99@yahoo.com> types: > Hello > > I'm currently working on trying to raise limits on our > FreeBSD machine from 1064 to 8192 or even higher for > our chat service. > > I did this (which worked for the time being) > sysctl -w > kern.maxfiles: 8192 > kern.maxfilesperproc: 4096 > > This raises the limits but when I compile the IRCd and > have the (hard limit) to 4096 or 8192 or even higher > the error comes back and says its still stuck on 1064 > > Someone told me to store these limits (above) in > a etc/sysctl.conf file but when I went to etc that > file wasn't in there .. do I have to newly create the > file or should it already be there? You need to create it. See the sysctl.conf man page. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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