From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 5 17:51:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA20634 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 17:51:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from nemesis.idirect.com (root@nemesis.idirect.com [207.136.80.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA20627 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 17:51:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlixfeld@idirect.com) Received: from thor.idirect.com (jlixfeld@thor.idirect.com [207.136.80.105]) by nemesis.idirect.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id UAA11744; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 20:51:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (jlixfeld@localhost) by thor.idirect.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA07805; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 20:51:00 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: thor.idirect.com: jlixfeld owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 20:51:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason Lixfeld To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increasing max open files per process @ system level In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk That's what I thought! Thanks! I'm running this on a PentiumII 233 w/256MB RAM.. I set OPEN_MAX and CHILD_MAX to 128. Is this sufficient, or can/should I go higher?! On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Jason Lixfeld wrote: > > > I'm configuring Sendmail 8.8.8 on FreeBSD 2.2.2, and I'm setting > > ConnectionCacheSize=4. To do this, I must increase the number of open > > files per process at the system level. How do I do this?! I assume this > > is a kernel compilation option.. if so, what is it.. if not, how do I set > > the aforementioned? > > Look in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT for "OPEN_MAX" > > > /* Daniel O'Callaghan */ > /* HiLink Internet danny@hilink.com.au */ > /* FreeBSD - works hard, plays hard... danny@freebsd.org */ > >