Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:34:43 -0500 From: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU> To: FreeBSD-STABLE <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Error: "Maximum file descriptors exceeded"... Message-ID: <20000229113443.F21891@stat.Duke.EDU> In-Reply-To: <38BBF0D3.6ED0DFD3@thehousleys.net>; from jim@thehousleys.net on Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 11:16:19AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002291045580.58885-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca> <v0422080ab4e19df0856e@[195.238.1.121]> <38BBF0D3.6ED0DFD3@thehousleys.net>
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James Housley stated:
> Brad Knowles wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> housley@cat:~/work/monitors {34} sysctl -a | grep -i file
> kern.maxfiles: 2088
> kern.bootfile: /kernel
> kern.maxfilesperproc: 2088
> kern.corefile: %N.core
> p1003_1b.mapped_files: 0
>
> It looks like updating kern.maxfiles and/or kern.maxfilesperproc should
> do the trick. What are the limits set in /etc/login.conf??
I thought this too, but if I run
sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=4096
sysctl -w kern.maxfilesperproc=4096
Now:
% sysctl kern.maxfiles
kern.maxfiles: 4096
% sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc
kern.maxfilesperproc: 4096
However, limit -h (tcsh builtin) and limits -H still report
descriptors 2088
openfiles 2088
respectively.
Even the manpage for sysctl implies this
Name Type Changeable
kern.maxfiles integer yes
kern.maxfilesperproc integer yes
Am I missing something obvious? Are these values really updated?
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