From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 25 12: 9:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9106A37BB50 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 12:09:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA11193; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 12:39:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 12:39:18 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jeff Gray Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file table full - consequences and do I have to reboot? Message-ID: <20000225123918.G21720@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000225121547.F21720@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from jwg2@cm-24-142-61-17.cableco-op.ispchannel.com on Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 12:02:35PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jeff Gray [000225 12:33] wrote: > Thanks, but.. > > $ ulimit -a > cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited > file size (512-blocks, -f) unlimited > data seg size (kbytes, -d) 524288 > stack size (kbytes, -s) 65536 > core file size (512-blocks, -c) unlimited > max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited > locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited > max user processes (-u) 531 > open files (-n) 1064 > > This confuses me as I ran, earlier > # sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=10000 > kern.maxfiles: 1064 -> 10000 > > and if I use my standard csh > > sysctl -A |grep files > kern.maxfiles: 10000 > > How do I use this information to solve this without rebooting? > > appreciate the education. As i said earlier, please see the login.conf manpage, don't forget to rebuild your login database: cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf you'll need to login and log back out again, but not reboot. as a side note any mailer that exceeds 1064 open files has issues. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message