From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 17 5:43: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2D5337B401 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 05:42:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 5679 invoked by uid 100); 17 Jan 2001 13:42:49 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14949.41305.490780.779723@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 07:42:49 -0600 (CST) To: f f Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: *Help* limits on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <113814623@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG f f 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. 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