Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 10:17:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Joseph Stein <joes@spiritone.com> Cc: brian@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Earlier problems with ppp and 'Too many open files' Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970701101435.27671A-100000@shell.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <199707011553.IAA01712@joes.users.spiritone.com>
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On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Joseph Stein wrote: > Well, it happened again. > > This time, I was attempting to 'make world' (2.2-STABLE) > Actually, come to think of it, that's what happened last time, too. > > This never happened before the implementation of 'login.conf' as far > as I can remember. > > I've got max users (MAXUSERS) set at 50. Should it be higher for a > one user machine? (I've got 13 ttyv's and an ISDN net connection and > one 33.6 modem) > > And, then when it didn't, Procmail started bouncing e-mail > (couldn't fork). > > Any ideas, anyone? > > Maybe you should read the manpage for login.conf and set your limits higher? With maxusers set to 32, you the system descriptor table will have over a 1000 entries. So unless something you use leaks them, you shouldn't have a problem. Tom
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