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From: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu>
To: Blair Schmittel <blair@strech.cyber-naut.com>
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Subject: Re: Incresing files
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On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Blair Schmittel wrote:

> How do you increase the limit on the # of files that can be open at any
> one time?


# of files, or # of processes?

One thing which may help is in your Kernel configuration file. The line:

maxusers #   (where # is a number, perhaps less than 4)

does not actually control the number of users who can log on, but the
number of process that can run simultaneously. The maximum number of
processes is set to 20 + 16 * maxusers, and 18 processes could be started
at boot time, plus 15 or so when you start X Windows. Even a simple task
like reading a 'man' page can start up 9 processes, so maxusers should be
set to at least 4, even for a single user machine.

You can get this info and more from:

http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook36.html#44

If you really mean 'files' and not 'processes' then I don't know!

Ken Marsh