From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 1 19:15:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA07278 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 19:15:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.uniserve.com (tom@shell.uniserve.com [204.244.210.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA07270; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 19:15:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (tom@localhost) by shell.uniserve.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA28811; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 19:11:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell.uniserve.com: tom owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 19:11:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: Brian Somers cc: Joseph Stein , brian@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Earlier problems with ppp and 'Too many open files' In-Reply-To: <199707012317.AAA00504@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Brian Somers wrote: > [.....] > > Maybe you should read the manpage for login.conf and set your limits > > higher? > > > > With maxusers set to 32, you the system descriptor table will have over > > a 1000 entries. So unless something you use leaks them, you shouldn't > > have a problem. > > As joerg pointed out on usenet (for a completely unrelated reason), > if you don't go through something that calls login_getcap*(), you > don't get the limits. > > I wonder, Joseph, are you using ppp w/ pap and avoiding using > getty/login (or using mgetty in "detect" mode) ? > > > Tom > > > > > > -- > Brian , > > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... > > > Since it seems to happen while doing a "make world", it shouldn't be a problem, because most people login to do a make world. Tom