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From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
To: Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org>
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Subject: Re: /kernel: file: table is full
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Thus spake Scott Lambert (lambert@lambertfam.org):

> > Bump up the 'maxusers' config option in your kernel configuration file.  
> You could instead change the sysctls.  They are adjustable at run time.

maxusers also has effect on some other resource-limitation variables
(e.g.  network mbufs).  If you run out of fds, you might also have
problems with your mbufs. (?)
Changing "maxusers" is a nice way if you don't want to set everything
explicitely.

I recommend reading tuning(7), it's great.  (Thanks Matt!)

Alex

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