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Date:      Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:43:41 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        John Andersson <yottaman@writeme.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Delayed effects of sysctl.conf
Message-ID:  <20010430084341.E18676@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <000401c0d18b$9aece690$0fad2fc2@te31002>; from yottaman@writeme.com on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:38:29PM %2B0200
References:  <000401c0d18b$9aece690$0fad2fc2@te31002>

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* John Andersson <yottaman@writeme.com> [010430 08:39] wrote:
> I have added "kern.maxfiles=16384" and "kern.maxfilesperproc=16384" in
> my FreeBSD 4.3 server to raise the number of file descriptors. The
> problem is that the ircd daemon does not see these changes at startup,
> it reports that there is too few file descriptos. If I manually start
> ircd after startup has completed, it starts without complaining.
> 
> It seems like the changes in sysctl.conf at startup does not take effect
> until the startup process has completed, perhaps it is after the
> securelevel has been raised or something.
> 
> What can I do to solve this? Can I modify the number of file descriptors
> in some other way, or start the ircd daemon in some other way?

How are you starting ircd?  From the looks of it sysctl.conf is
read _very early_ during startup and if you're starting ircd before
it via startup scripts you're most likely doing something terribly
wrong.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org]
http://www.egr.unlv.edu/~slumos/on-netbsd.html

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