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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:16:32 +0100
From: Mario Hoerich <lists@MHoerich.de>
To: Axel.Gruner@suedfactoring.de
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and too many files open...
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# Axel.Gruner@suedfactoring.de:
> 
> kern.maxfilesperproc: 5898
> kern.maxusers: 384
> 
> My /boot/loader.conf looks like:
> kern.maxfiles="65536"
> kern.ipc.nmbclusters=64000
> kern.ipc.nmbufs=256000
> kern.maxproc=8192
> kern.ipc.somaxconn=4096
> 
> So i do not get it, imho the configuration is just fine, but why do i get
> the message "too many files open..."?

What does ulimit -a tell?  Any limits in /etc/login.conf?

Regards,
Mario