From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 3:23:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from malkav.snowmoon.com (machine-126-237.cdcsd.k12.ny.us [208.20.126.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 12DD315513 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 03:23:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com) Received: (qmail 87122 invoked from network); 29 Oct 1999 10:23:46 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO localhost.snowmoon.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Oct 1999 10:23:46 -0000 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 06:23:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Jaime Kikpole To: menger@dhs.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File Descriptors In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 29 Oct 1999 menger@dhs.org wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to change the number of File Descriptors > and maybe a good value. The proxy is serving 200+ machines with about 50+ > surfing at once. If you want to increase the number of FDs on the system, recompile your kernel with a higher "maxusers" value. Look in the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook) for details on how to do this. (It basically requires changing an obvious line in one file, doing about 4 specific commands, and rebooting.) Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message