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Date:      Mon, 9 Oct 2000 01:03:05 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: sysctl -w
Message-ID:  <20001009010305.A7386@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001009084836.A8271@siafu.iconnect.co.ke>; from "Odhiambo Washington" on Mon Oct  9 08:48:36 GMT 2000
References:  <20001009084836.A8271@siafu.iconnect.co.ke>

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In the last episode (Oct 09), Odhiambo Washington said:
> Hello,
> May I ask one question about sysctl.
> I get the following msg from the kernel: 
> 
> Oct  9 02:57:06 alouette syslogd: /dev/console: Too many open files in system: Too many open files in system
> Oct  9 02:57:06 alouette /kernel: file: table is full
> Oct  9 02:57:14 alouette last message repeated 8 times
> Oct  9 02:57:16 alouette /kernel: pid 5236 (cron), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
> 
> So I asked myself, what is the current set value?
> admin:~$ sysctl kern.maxproc

You want kern.maxfiles, actually.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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