Date: 21 Oct 2000 20:05:34 -0400 From: Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Too many open files in system Message-ID: <87puktbv01.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> In-Reply-To: <HLEDJBJKDDPDJBMGCLPPCEGDCGAA.otterr@telocity.com> References: <HLEDJBJKDDPDJBMGCLPPCEGDCGAA.otterr@telocity.com>
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"Otter" <otterr@telocity.com> writes: Otter, thanks for your reply! > Looking at the sysctl man page, you'll find plenty of options to > tweak. I see a kern.maxfiles option, though I'm not exactly sure what > it does. Sounds like it may be worth looking into. This option is not explained in the manpage, so I looked at sys/sysctl.h file and it seems that this might be the max number of open files on the system. However, this number is set to 552 right now, whereas `lsof' reports 809 open files. ,---- | soup:/usr/include/sys# sysctl kern.maxfiles | kern.maxfiles: 552 | soup:/usr/include/sys# lsof | wc -l | 809 `---- Am I misunderstanding something? Any further ideas? Many thanks, -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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