From owner-freebsd-security Tue May 29 6:13:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mohegan.mohawk.net (mohegan.mohawk.net [63.66.68.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C1FB37B422 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 06:13:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjh@mohawk.net) Received: from mohegan.mohawk.net (mohegan.mohawk.net [63.66.68.21]) by mohegan.mohawk.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4TDHMi43888; Tue, 29 May 2001 09:17:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 09:17:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Ralph Huntington To: "Timothy S. Bowers" Cc: Axel Scheepers , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: maxfiles in kernel In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010529140721.00a2ac90@nol.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In the kernel config maxusers 512 gives 16424 maxfiles 256 gives half that and 128 half again On Tue, 29 May 2001, Timothy S. Bowers wrote: > Hi Axel, > > Mine was 1064 and I've changed it to 4096. I've also changed kern.maxfilesperproc to 4096. > I hope this holds :) > > What do you think I should put in the kernel for maxusers ? > > Regards, > > Timothy Bowers > > > At 01:54 PM 5/29/01, you wrote: > >Hi there, > >You can use sysctl -w kernel.maxfiles= to set it manually or > >change the maxusers value in your kernel config. > >Greetz, > >Axel > > > >-- > >Met vriendelijke groet, > >VIA NET.WORKS Nederland > > > >Axel Scheepers > >Operations > >phone +31 40 239 33 93 > >fax +31 40 239 33 11 > >e-mail eindhoven.beheer@vianetworks.nl > >http://www.vianetworks.nl/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message