Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 22:45:32 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.maxfiles formula? Message-ID: <41D86B7C.3010202@incubus.de> In-Reply-To: <20050102205701.GB42951@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050102091914.3D0B9114F1@mail.cypherpunks.to> <20050102101309.GA72018@xor.obsecurity.org> <41D838DF.4090106@incubus.de> <20050102205701.GB42951@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > Having a hard limit is by design, or users could run your machine out > of memory and cause it to panic. # sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=20000 kern.maxfiles: 12328 -> 20000 Ok, I agree. Must've confused something here. I was under the impression that it was fixed at boot. The user issue could be tackled with ulimit, however probably not in a completely satisfactory way (with resource limits being per-process, not per-user. Sometimes a bit of VMS would be nice ;). mkb.
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