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From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To: Joseph Stein <joes@spiritone.com>
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Subject: Re: Earlier problems with ppp and 'Too many open files'
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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