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From: "Myriam Askar" <maskar@inktomi.com>
To: "reel@sympatico.ca" <reel@idemnia.ath.cx>
Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: RE: Set the number of descriptors
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 11:22:30 -0800
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Hi!
Thanks you so much for answering my question.
I indeed wanted to increase the number of files descriptors of the kernel.
Now I have:
ptest65# sysctl -a | grep maxfiles
kern.maxfiles: 4000
kern.maxfilesperproc: 4000
But I still don't understand why when I type limit, I get a "descriptors
1064"
ptest65# limit
cputime         unlimited
filesize        unlimited
datasize        524288 kbytes
stacksize       65536 kbytes
coredumpsize    unlimited
memoryuse       unlimited
descriptors     1064
memorylocked    unlimited
maxproc         531

What does this "descriptors" represent?

Thanks again!
Myriam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: reel@sympatico.ca [mailto:reel@idemnia.ath.cx]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 8:52 PM
> To: Myriam Askar
> Cc: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: Re: Set the number of descriptors
>
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> On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Myriam Askar wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I am using FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0: Fri Jul 28
> 14:30:31 GMT 2000
> > ********************
> > $ uname -a
> > FreeBSD ptest65.tsqa.inktomi.com 4.1-RELEASE FreeBSD
> 4.1-RELEASE #0: Fri Jul
> > 28 14:30:31 GMT 2000
> jkh@ref4.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
> > i386
> > ********************
> >
> > And I would like to boost the descriptors from 1064 to a bigger number.
> > But it seems that I cannot go above 1064, when I do a :
> > limit descriptors 4000
> > It does not affect the number.
> > Do I need to recompile the kernel?
> > And if yes, how should I do it?
>
> You want to ask about changing the number of file descriptors?
>
> To know how much you have, type:
>    # sysctl -a | grep maxfiles
> Then, just do:
>    # sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=4000
>
> Maybe it'll help you.
>
> Have a nice day!
>
> ______________________
> Felix-Antoine Paradis
> reel@sympatico.ca
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