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Date:      Sun, 5 Nov 2000 10:19:48 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Len Conrad <lconrad@Go2France.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: where to increase number of files
Message-ID:  <20001105101948.J5112@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20001105185632.00ad8680@mail.Go2France.com>; from lconrad@Go2France.com on Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 07:05:04PM %2B0100
References:  <5.0.0.25.0.20001105185632.00ad8680@mail.Go2France.com>

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* Len Conrad <lconrad@Go2France.com> [001105 10:05] wrote:
> I've got a client with largish FreeBSD/posfif mailhub (200K 
> mgs/weekday) that is hitting the 1024 open files limit.  Where is the 
> best place in the startup to insert tweaking commands like this, rc.local?
> 
> 
> /sbin/sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=2048
> /sbin/sysctl -w kern.maxfilesperproc=2048

/etc/sysctl.conf

just add :

kern.maxfiles=2048
kern.maxfilesperproc=2048

to it.


> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Len
> 
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