Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:31:25 +0200 From: Andreas Berg <andy@flame.org> To: Jaime Kikpole <jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com>, menger@dhs.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File Descriptors Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19991029122833.0164b5b0@atlantis.fukt.hk-r.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910290622090.87081-100000@malkav.snowmoon.c om> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910291445500.354-100000@home.enger.org>
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At 12:23 1999-10-29 , Jaime Kikpole wrote: >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.) You can also increase kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc at runtime using sysctl. Increasing NMBCLUSTERS might be a good idea too, but thats not possible through sysctl. netstat -m shows you stats on NMBCLUSTER usage. > Jaime -Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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