Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:46:51 -0500 From: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU> To: FreeBSD-STABLE <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Error: "Maximum file descriptors exceeded"... Message-ID: <20000229114651.G21891@stat.Duke.EDU> In-Reply-To: <14523.63005.58024.976749@onceler.kcilink.com>; from khera@kciLink.com on Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 11:38:53AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002291045580.58885-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca> <v0422080ab4e19df0856e@[195.238.1.121]> <38BBF0D3.6ED0DFD3@thehousleys.net> <20000229113443.F21891@stat.Duke.EDU> <14523.63005.58024.976749@onceler.kcilink.com>
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Vivek Khera stated:
> >>>>> "SO" == Sean O'Connell <sean@stat.Duke.EDU> writes:
>
> SO> I thought this too, but if I run
>
> SO> sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=4096
> SO> sysctl -w kern.maxfilesperproc=4096
>
> SO> Now:
>
> SO> % sysctl kern.maxfiles
> SO> kern.maxfiles: 4096
> SO> % sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc
> SO> kern.maxfilesperproc: 4096
>
> SO> However, limit -h (tcsh builtin) and limits -H still report
>
> SO> descriptors 2088
> SO> openfiles 2088
>
> [ ... ]
>
> SO> Am I missing something obvious? Are these values really updated?
>
> Did you logout and back in? I don't think upping the system-wide
> limits will dynamically update the limits given to processes that are
> already started. Logging in again will cause your process (ie, the
> shell) to have its resource limits set to the current hard limits.
>
> ps: Go Duke!!! I really miss the place. ;-(
Vivek-
D'oh. Sean gets the proverbial pointy hat on that. I did a login
from an xterm -ls and it worked. I have too many open windows at
the moment.
So for the matter at hand, I would suppose that stopping and restarting
innd would be all that is needed.
S
PS. And to think I give people a "hard time" about group membership
and the need to logout and log back in.
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