From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 29 8:12:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4138737C366 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:12:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12PpFn-00070H-00; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:12:07 -0800 Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:12:05 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Brad Knowles Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error: "Maximum file descriptors exceeded"... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Beware of per-user limits. You don't mention what user you ran "limit" as, or what user the news server process runs as. Each could have very different limits. See /etc/login.conf. It might even depend on how the server server process is started. Processes started at boot run under the "daemon" class, for instance. BTW, the system wide file limit is not static. You don't need to re-compile to change it, or even reboot. Just use sysctl. Tom Uniserve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message