From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 6:36:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wondermutt.net (host75-157.student.udel.edu [128.175.75.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C74D814C9C for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 06:36:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from papalia@udel.edu) Received: from morgaine (morgaine.wondermutt.net [192.168.1.2]) by wondermutt.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA08887; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:37:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from papalia@udel.edu) Message-Id: <4.1.20000128093034.009508b0@mail.udel.edu> X-Sender: papalia@mail.udel.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:33:44 -0500 To: Doug Denault , Scipio From: John Subject: Re: how do i increase the maximum number of open files systemwide. Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> Ciao >> Nezer Zaidenberg >> VP R&D >> Vtrails.com >> >> phone : 972-9-9584684 ext 401 | "fertility is hereditary if parents >> res : 972-9-7435473 | didn't have any children neither will >> mobile : 972-51-707267 | you" - SunOS fortune cookie >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message