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Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 22:59:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Yves LePage <yves@CC.McGill.CA>
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Subject: kern.maxopenfiles
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Hello,

I just installed 2.2.2-RELEASE. The server (ircd) that I'll be running 
on it needs to have a large number of open fd's. Currently my system
is set with a hard limit of 360 open files. I wish to increase that
to 4096. 

I tried with sysctl -w kern.maxopenfiles=4096 but that didn't work
when I used the limit command as root after that to increase my limit.

How can I increase this value (ideally permanently)?

Thanks alot,
Yves Lepage