Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 11:48:51 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, andrew@squiz.co.nz, Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Bob K <melange@yip.org>, The Lab <thelab@nmarcom.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: too many open files Message-ID: <199809061848.LAA09624@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 06 Sep 1998 06:53:54 PDT." <199809061354.GAA00979@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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> > > between sysctl and login.conf, either can be set without a rebuild. > > > > No. The kern.maxfiles sysctl shouldn't be writable in 2.2, and it's > > not writable in 3.0; it refers to the size of a static table. > > I've been setting kern.maxfiles on 2.2 systems for well over a year, > possibly even two years. It seems like it would be a step backwards > for 3.0 to require a kernel rebuild to set this value. Bleagh. I appear to have come unstuck somewhere; 'maxfiles' doesn't refer to a static table, and kern.maxfiles is still writable. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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