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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
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Subject: Re: Sockets limit?
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* froekjaerf@netscape.net <froekjaerf@netscape.net> [001012 12:15] wrote:
> Just a quick question.
> How many sockets can i open from a FreeBSD box?

Depends on how you tune the machine, see the LINT config file.

you can check also via 'kern.ipc.maxsockets':

  ~ % sysctl kern.ipc.maxsockets 
  kern.ipc.maxsockets: 8232

You can raise that via the 'maxusers' kernel config paramter (i think).

-Alfred


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