From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 20:49:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from or2.inktomi.com (or2.inktomi.com [209.131.48.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 308F337B491 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 20:48:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from inbox2.inktomi.com (inbox2.inktomi.com [209.131.48.29]) by or2.inktomi.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA03724 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 20:50:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from maskar-pc ([209.131.52.188]) by inbox2.inktomi.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with SMTP id G8F9DG00.OB7; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 20:48:52 -0800 From: "Myriam Askar" To: Cc: Subject: Set the number of descriptors Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 20:48:50 -0800 Message-ID: <001f01c0918a$6de78e20$bc3483d1@maskar-pc.inktomi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I am using FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0: Fri Jul 28 14:30:31 GMT 2000 ******************** $ uname -a FreeBSD ptest65.tsqa.inktomi.com 4.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE #0: Fri Jul 28 14:30:31 GMT 2000 jkh@ref4.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 ******************** And I would like to boost the descriptors from 1064 to a bigger number. But it seems that I cannot go above 1064, when I do a : limit descriptors 4000 It does not affect the number. Do I need to recompile the kernel? And if yes, how should I do it? Thanks in advance for your help, it will be greatly appreciated! Myriam Askar Inktomi Corporation To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message