Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 22:06:06 -0600 From: Blair Schmittel <blair@cyber-naut.com> To: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Incresing files Message-ID: <199607180406.WAA20126@strech.cyber-naut.com>
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At 03:48 PM 7/17/96 -0700, you wrote: >On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Blair Schmittel wrote: > >> How do you increase the limit on the # of files that can be open at any >> one time? > > ># of files, or # of processes? > >One thing which may help is in your Kernel configuration file. The line: > >maxusers # (where # is a number, perhaps less than 4) > >does not actually control the number of users who can log on, but the >number of process that can run simultaneously. The maximum number of >processes is set to 20 + 16 * maxusers, and 18 processes could be started >at boot time, plus 15 or so when you start X Windows. Even a simple task >like reading a 'man' page can start up 9 processes, so maxusers should be >set to at least 4, even for a single user machine. > >You can get this info and more from: > >http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook36.html#44 > >If you really mean 'files' and not 'processes' then I don't know! > >Ken Marsh # of files, as in the "pstat -T" command. Right now my maxusers is 10. Any other ideas? Thanks, Blair ---------------------------------- Blair Schmittel Manager of Operations Cyber-Naut admin@cyber-naut.com
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