Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 21:53:52 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: open files Message-ID: <19990613215352.A3211@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <xzpyahnsz1h.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <3763F4D4.4D17E03F@kolia.north.gencon.com> <xzpyahnsz1h.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "Nikolai E. Wendorf" <nick@kolia.north.gencon.com> writes:
>> Jun 13 07:32:52 fw1 syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system
>> Jun 13 07:32:52 fw1 syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system
>
> sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=2048
Oh, so that does work. Has that always worked, when trying to increase
the limit above the limit set when the kernel was compiled? I'm sure I
tried doing that a while back (probably a 2.2.x system, 5 <= x <= 7) and
it didn't seem to work, perhaps my tests were flawed.
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