From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 3 9: 7: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from kronos.alcnet.com (kronos.alcnet.com [63.69.28.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE6351522A for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 09:06:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kbyanc@posi.net) X-Provider: ALC Communications, Inc. http://www.alcnet.com/ Received: from localhost (kbyanc@localhost) by kronos.alcnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/antispam) with ESMTP id MAA12629; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 12:06:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 12:06:14 -0500 (EST) From: Kelly Yancey X-Sender: kbyanc@kronos.alcnet.com To: Kip Macy Cc: "John W. DeBoskey" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: maxfiles same as maxfilesperproc ?? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, maybe a patch will get things moving. I just submitted kern/15860 with a simple patch which reduces the default maxfilesperproc to be 20 less than maxfiles. I got the mailing list reference wrong in the PR, but -hackers has it's share of similar requests :). Kelly On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Kip Macy wrote: > I made the same comment several months ago and received a rather cool > reception. I was simply told to change it to my liking in login.conf. > > > -Kip > > On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, John W. DeBoskey wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On a FreeBSD 4.0-19991223-SNAP system... > > > > I just ran into a situation that caused me to have to reboot > > the machine before understanding what had really happenned... > > > > The problems comes down to: > > > > kern.maxfiles: 4136 > > kern.maxfilesperproc: 4136 > > > > > > Thus, because I had a root uid server that looped chewing > > up file descriptors, it also filled up the system file table. > > > > I realize this is end-user/administrator fixable, but I'm > > not sure the default should have these be the same... > > > > Thanks, > > John > > -- Kelly Yancey - kbyanc@posi.net - Richmond, VA Analyst / E-business Development, Bell Industries http://www.bellind.com/ Maintainer, BSD Driver Database http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/ Coordinator, Team FreeBSD http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message