From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 13 9:25:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.microbsd.net (mail.microbsd.net [4.23.122.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD8A937B416 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:25:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (localhost.microbsd.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail.microbsd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 07CA91F14; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:22:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from vpan.netwolves.com (unknown [65.162.182.120]) by mail.microbsd.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FBE81F11; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:22:30 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: kern.maxfiles question From: Dingo To: John Fox Cc: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0 (Preview Release) Date: 13 Dec 2001 13:24:29 -0500 Message-Id: <1008267870.23595.30.camel@devel.netwolves.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG try this, on my system the defaults are sysctl -a | grep maxfiles kern.maxfiles: 4136 kern.maxfilesperproc: 4136 take the output of kern.maxfiles and up it sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=8272 kern.maxfiles: 4136 -> 8272 this effectively doubles it also read man sysctl On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 12:14, John Fox wrote: > Greetings, > > I started seeing the 'file: table is full' message on the nightly output > log, so I went to the site so see what I could find out about it. It said I > needed to up the number of descriptors allowed in kern.maxfiles. I looked > and I couldn't find this file on my system. Is this a file that I have to > add in? > > John Fox > > > 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