Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 19:35:37 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Kip Macy" <kip@lyris.com>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc Message-ID: <002501bf0310$d2700520$021d85d1@youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9909191513220.24965-100000@luna>
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> Is kern.maxfiles the total number of files that can be open on the system > at one time? If so it seems very silly that by default it is the same > number as kern.maxfilesperproc -- meaning that any process can use up the > total number of files available to the system. > Thanks. > > -Kip These are the default values for maximums. They're not intended to protect your system against resource starvation by a malicious process (since they apply to root as well as normal users). And actually, it makes a lot of sense. It's not unusual for a server to really only have one process or set of processes that you care about. For example, for a web server, all you really care about is Apache. For an SMB file server, Samba. So it's reasonable that the two limits be similar. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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