Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:57:15 -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: <20010430085715.F18676@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <000b01c0d18d$cf5ee2f0$0fad2fc2@te31002>; from yottaman@writeme.com on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:54:16PM %2B0200 References: <20010430084341.E18676@fw.wintelcom.net> <000b01c0d18d$cf5ee2f0$0fad2fc2@te31002>
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* John Andersson <yottaman@writeme.com> [010430 08:54] wrote: > The ircd is started by a startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. I > looked at the /etc/rc script and noticed (as you said) that sysctl.conf > is read long before the ircd startup script. > > Still, ircd does not notice the changes in maxfiles. Similar effects can > be found by executing the "limit" built-in command in tcsh, that reports > the number of descriptors. It does not see the changes directly after > "sysctl -w kern.maxfiles", but it does so later, after a login. You probably want to use the ulimit builtin to request a larger limit in your startup script. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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