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Date:      Fri, 14 Jun 1996 12:42:15 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Wes Santee <wes@bogon.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   How to set max socket connections?
Message-ID:  <9606141642.AA18203@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199606140151.SAA25221@bogon.net>
References:  <199606140151.SAA25221@bogon.net>

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<<On Thu, 13 Jun 1996 18:51:27 -0700 (PDT), Wes Santee <wes@bogon.net> said:

> I need to increase the maximum number of allowed open sockets on a
> FreeBSD machine and I can't seem to find where to make this tweak.

There is no limit on the number of open sockets.  The limit is on the
number of file descriptors, both per-user and system-wide, and in the
size of the `fd_set' data structure used by select(2).

-GAWollman

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