From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 2 04:48:30 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A1EF16A4BF for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 04:48:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (law12-oe25.law12.hotmail.com [64.4.18.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81DB543F85 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 04:48:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from company2210@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 04:48:29 -0700 Received: from 81.17.78.11 by law12-oe25.adinternal.hotmail.com with DAV; Tue, 02 Sep 2003 11:48:28 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [81.17.78.11] X-Originating-Email: [company2210@hotmail.com] From: "Company 2210" To: Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 12:48:33 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2727.1300 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Sep 2003 11:48:29.0339 (UTC) FILETIME=[20809EB0:01C37148] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Problem Tuning Maxsockets X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 11:48:30 -0000 I am trying to alter the number of maxsockets allocated from the default = of 2022 to 8192 on a FreeBSD 4.8 box. However, when I try to perform this operation via sysctl I'm informed the oid (kern.ipc.maxsockets) is read only. Does this mean I need to recompile the kernel? I've tried 'options MAXSOCKETS=3D8192' in a kernel recompile - but that was rejected by the = inital parse, so either the option is different to the sysctl name or their is another way to do this? Could someone shed some light? Thanks Colin