Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 13:43:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Bob K <melange@yip.org>, The Lab <thelab@nmarcom.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: too many open files Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980904134051.20117A-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9809041440500.5462-100000@hub.org>
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On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Bob K wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, The Lab wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I keep getting the "too many open files" message, but am unsure exactly > > > > how to reconfigure my kernel to compensate. Any suggestions? > > > > > > Actually, check the /etc/login.conf file and raise the limits for > > > the 'login group' that you are a member of...I'm not 100% certain whether > > > this is available on pre-3.0 systems though :( > > > > Another possibility (which was one I ran into just two days ago) is to > > raise the value of maxusers; the default is 10. I raised mine to 20, but > > it's a really low-powered system (486dx4/100, 24 megs of RAM) that only > > gets light usage. Most people suggested values in the 40-50 range for a > > single workstation running X. > > One requires a rebuild/reboot of the system...one doesn't. IN a > production environment, /etc/login.conf is about the only choice... Except you are talking about two different things. MAXUSERS controls the system wide file table. /etc/login.conf controls per-user file limits. You can increase the limits in /etc/login.conf all you want, but if the system wide table is full, you will still get "too many open files" errors. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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