Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:02:19 +0100 From: Mike Doyle <relyod@co-operation-ireland.ie> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Question about sysctl Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20000925120219.0083e1c0@199.107.2.1>
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I need a little pointer on the use of sysctl. Background to the problem: This morning I noticed a warning on my server console "... squid[pid]: WARNING! Your cache is running out of file descriptors" Now this has never happened before. Reading the old questions/answers on the Squid website, it refered to a utility called "ulimit". But "man ulimit" on FreeBSD returns nothing. However I remembered the sysctl command, and one of the options sysctl can set/change is "kern.maxfiles" (currently 1576) Is this what I need to increase? If so, will I need to re-start the server afterwards? Or simply re-start Squid? I have never worried about this before now because the out-of-the-box configurations have "just worked" for the last three years... <>< ============================================================ ><> Michael Doyle email: relyod@co-operation-ireland.ie Network Administrator personal email: relyod@indigo.ie Co-operation Ireland http://www.co-operation-ireland.ie/ Phone: +353-1-661 0588 Fax: +353-1-661 8456 ********************************************************************* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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