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Date:      Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:30:43 -0500
From:      "Gerald T. Freymann" <freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Steven Duckworth" <sduckworth@aug.edu>
Subject:   Re: Sendmail - setting number of open files
Message-ID:  <02b401c16229$65999630$0f01a8c0@phantom>
References:  <5.1.0.14.0.20011031093001.02bda9b8@ns1.aug.edu>

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>The problem I have is  when someone sends something to
>a list with many users I get  the error "To many open files in
>system".  Issuing the command sysctl -a I see that the kern.maxfiles is
>1064.  Does anyone have any experience with tweeking these  settings for
>use with sendmail?

 How about addit to /etc/sysctl.conf

kern.maxfiles=2048

 That will it stick when you reboot. You'd also have to issue the command
from the command line to try and make it so immediately.

-gf




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