Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 20:15:14 -0500 (EST) From: Greg Skouby <gskouby@sitesnow.com> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Luiz Lins <luigi@vecom.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Too many files Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981103201431.17666A-100000@sitesnow.com> In-Reply-To: <19981103213821.A8545@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> Luiz Lins wrote:
>
> > I have FreeBSD 2.2.6 working with apache and serving a heavy site.
> > It has about 2,000 accesses per day. I compiled the kernel with the
> > following options:
> > CHILD_MAX=256
> > OPEN_MAX=2000
> >
> > But, for instance, when I type "ls" the system often returns:
> > "ls: .: Too many open files in system"
>
> I think in -current you have to set "maxusers" to increase the maximum
> number of processes, not sure about 2.2.6. Have you tried putting
> something like
>
It is the same for 2.2.6. Increase the maxusers parameters in your kernel
config file and recompile. This will fix your problem.
> maxusers 64
>
> in your kernel config? (I found that {CHILD,OPEN}_MAX had no effect.)
>
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> Ben Smithurst
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