From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 19 18:49:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 792B314DCF for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 18:49:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-mdt.sentex.net (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA07966; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 21:49:10 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: kip@lyris.com (Kip Macy) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 02:02:33 GMT Message-ID: <37e5956b.344454689@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 19 Sep 1999 18:18:25 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.misc you wrote: >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. Have a look at login.conf to limit the max files to what you need. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message