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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2001 07:42:49 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        f f <smowball99@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: *Help* limits on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <14949.41305.490780.779723@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <113814623@toto.iv>

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f f <smowball99@yahoo.com> types:
> Hello
> 
> I'm currently working on trying to raise limits on our
> FreeBSD machine from 1064 to 8192 or even higher for
> our chat service.
> 
> I did this (which worked for the time being)
> sysctl -w
> kern.maxfiles: 8192
> kern.maxfilesperproc: 4096
> 
> This raises the limits but when I compile the IRCd and
> have the (hard limit) to 4096 or 8192 or even higher
> the error comes back and says its still stuck on 1064
> 
> Someone told me to store these limits (above) in
> a etc/sysctl.conf file but when I went to etc that
> file wasn't in there .. do I have to newly create the
> file or should it already be there?

You need to create it. See the sysctl.conf man page.

	<mike
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Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>			http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/
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