From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 29 8:44:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [24.218.96.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB23E37BBF6 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:44:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Received: from baby.int.thehousleys.net (baby.int.thehousleys.net [192.168.0.24]) by thehousleys.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA55854; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:44:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from thehousleys.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by baby.int.thehousleys.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA21920; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:44:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Message-ID: <38BBF76B.80730ADC@thehousleys.net> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:44:27 -0500 From: James Housley Organization: The Housleys dot Net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Sean O'Connell" Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Subject: Re: Error: "Maximum file descriptors exceeded"... References: <38BBF0D3.6ED0DFD3@thehousleys.net> <20000229113443.F21891@stat.Duke.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sean O'Connell wrote: > kern.maxfilesperproc integer yes > > Am I missing something obvious? Are these values really updated? > Logout and back in the shell probably gets the value when spawned/login. And if that fixes it you will need to either kill -1 your problem program or kill and restart it so it has the new limits. Jim -- Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message