From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 5 15:08:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA24073 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 15:08:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from broken.whitefang.com (broken.whitefang.com [199.173.153.182]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA24014 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 15:08:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (shadows@localhost) by broken.whitefang.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA22181 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 01:06:10 +0300 (AST) X-Authentication-Warning: broken.whitefang.com: shadows owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 01:06:09 +0300 (AST) From: The ShadowS Know Reply-To: shadows@kuwait.net To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upping maximum fd's per proccess In-Reply-To: <199609051645.LAA28834@applink.applink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Robert Garrett wrote: > Help i need to know how to increase the the fd's to a minimum of 2048 You need to recompile your kernel. Atleast thats what I did, here's two lines from my kernel config. options "CHILD_MAX=256" options "OPEN_MAX=256" Look in the FreeBSD handbook for information on kernel recompilation. Its pretty straight-forward. Good luck :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ShadowS WhiteFang Unix Software Development Thamer Al-Herbish And Consultancy. shadows@whitefang.com Specialising in Custom Network Applications for Unix Systems. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------