From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 20 10:37:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15BAD14F49 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 10:37:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 11T7Nr-0002zY-00; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 10:37:47 -0700 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 10:37:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Kip Macy Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Kip Macy wrote: > Is kern.maxfiles the total number of files that can be open on the system > at one time? If so it seems very silly that by default it is the same > number as kern.maxfilesperproc -- meaning that any process can use up the > total number of files available to the system. > Thanks. Howerver, login.conf controls those limits. maxfilesperproc should probably be deprecated now. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message