From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 29 8: 6:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from morpheus.skynet.be (morpheus.skynet.be [195.238.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECF6037BB52 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:06:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by morpheus.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD3D1CE11; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:05:57 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:04:09 +0100 To: Matt Heckaman From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Error: "Maximum file descriptors exceeded"... Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:51 AM -0500 2000/2/29, Matt Heckaman wrote: > To be quite honest with you, I'm not very sure where this idea came from > that MAXUSERS > 128 is bad, I've been running configs like that for quite > a while (I guess ( 3.1+)) and never had a bit of trouble, minus the time > I had a hard drive fail, but that doesn't really count =) This particular machine is in production and running 3.2-RELEASE, so MAXUSERS > 128 might still be a problem. I can't take the machine out of production, so upgrading the OS really isn't an option. However, I have explicitly increased NMBCLUSTERS to 16384 (at the recommendation of another knowledgeable FreeBSD admin), and I haven't seen this cause any problems for me. Unfortunately, none of this seems to be related to my problem of having the error message described, or how I can eliminate this error message. -- These are my opinions and should not be taken as official Skynet policy ========================================================================= Brad Knowles, Sys. Arch., Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin Note: No Microsoft programs were used in the creation or distribution of this message. If you are using a Microsoft program to view this message, be forewarned that I am not responsible for any harm you may encounter as a result. See for details. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message