Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:57:01 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.maxfiles formula? Message-ID: <20050102205701.GB42951@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <41D838DF.4090106@incubus.de> References: <20050102091914.3D0B9114F1@mail.cypherpunks.to> <20050102101309.GA72018@xor.obsecurity.org> <41D838DF.4090106@incubus.de>
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--+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 07:09:35PM +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > >A truly enormous number :-) You just need to increase the value of > >kern.maxfiles in /boot/loader.conf as appropriate for your workload. >=20 > would it be possible to make this dynamically allocated in the future?=20 Having a hard limit is by design, or users could run your machine out of memory and cause it to panic. > imho, such limits are a bit anachronistic. No, you're just using an abnormal workload on your machine, for which the defaults are not sufficient. Kris --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB2GAcWry0BWjoQKURAhFlAKC+EbuteH2HVkdPiVm6kdBtD3BbgACg8oo4 /2DprKhAzOPMRtqaE5q2LKw= =CSM0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl--
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