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Date:      Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:33:44 -0500
From:      John <papalia@udel.edu>
To:        Doug Denault <doug@safeport.com>, Scipio <scipio@segfault.vtrails.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how do i increase the maximum number of open files systemwide.
Message-ID:  <4.1.20000128093034.009508b0@mail.udel.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000128091831.32379A-100000@fledge.watson.or g>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001092212480.28374-100000@segfault.vtrails.com>

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I just jumped on this thread, but I think this might help:

In "the Complete freebsd v. 2", it states that the maximum number of
processes is set to 
20+ 16*Maxusers where "maxusers" is set in the kernel.

Everyone I've talked to has always suggested to take your "real" number of
maxusers and bad it a good bit, to make sure you don't have to "suddenly"
take down the system and rebuild / reinstall the kernel with a new maxusers
value.  The only thing I can recall being warned about was to make certain
that the max processes you end up running can actually be handled by your
hardware (I have NO idea how to make a TRUE evaluation of that though...)

Good luck,
John



>There is something wrong with my posting ability; so I am trying again:
>
>unlike BSDI and maybe some of the other BSDs there is no kernel conif
>parameter for this. It sizes from maxusers. On my systems:
>
>maxuser = 32 gets kern.maxfiles: 1064
>maxuser =128 gets kern.maxfiles: 4136
>
>I could not find another way, note I am new to FreeBSD.
>
>
>On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Scipio wrote:
>
>> and the max files FD_SET_SIZE and number of file descriptor per process.
>> 
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