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To: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu>
From: Blair Schmittel <blair@cyber-naut.com>
Subject: Re: Incresing files
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At 03:48 PM 7/17/96 -0700, you wrote:
>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

# of files, as in the "pstat -T" command.  Right now my maxusers is 10.

Any other ideas?
Thanks,
Blair

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