From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 12:58:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA17927 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:58:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.connectnet.com (smtp.connectnet.com [207.110.0.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA17920 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:58:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from wink.connectnet.com (Studded@wink.connectnet.com [206.251.156.23]) by smtp.connectnet.com (8.8.5/Connectnet-2.2) with SMTP id MAA10321 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:58:43 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199702112058.MAA10321@smtp.connectnet.com> From: "That Doug Guy" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Tue, 11 Feb 97 12:57:48 -0800 Reply-To: "That Doug Guy" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: That Doug Guy's Registered PMMail 1.53 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: File descriptor information please Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I need information on the relationship between the amount of RAM in a machine and the total number of file descriptors available, and whether and how this is related to the maxusers option in the kernel config. I understand from "The Complete FreeBSD" that maxusers relates to the total number of processes, but I'm a little fuzzy on the topic of file descriptors. I did a search from the www page on *descriptor* and got nothing. A search on descriptor* got me http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook287.html which didn't have the info I needed. A search of the mail archives didn't get me anything that applied to my situation. As always, I'm willing to do the research myself if someone can point me in the right direction, and thanks for any help you can provide. Doug