Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:06:42 +0200 From: "Pietro Cerutti" <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> To: "freebsd questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: maxusers -> kernel.maxfiles Message-ID: <e572718c0607050506m35e8b074l31db8a06894e472b@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi list, today my home server stopped responding because of a "kern.maxfiles limit exceeded" problem. I noticed that the maxfiles MIB value was set to 1928, which I find ridiculous even for a small home server ( i386-6.1-RELEASE, mySQL, Apache, LDAP, Postfix, SSH, SFTP ). On my laptop, which is running 6.1-STABLE, this defaults to 25000. Reading [1] I discovered that this value is computed basing on the value of maxusers, which is supposed to be in the kernel configuration file. Since I didn't set the maxusers option in my kernel conf, I was expecting to find a default value somewhere, and here's where I miserably fail... So, could you please tell me: 1) where's the default for it? 2) how is the kern.maxfiles value exactly computed? Thank you in advance, -- Pietro Cerutti ICQ: 117293691 PGP: 0x9571F78E - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org
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