Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 09:52:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Martin Welk <mw@freibergnet.de> To: Andrew Petrenko <apl@webber.net.ua> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: SCO binaries and FreeBSD 2.2.7-stable Message-ID: <XFMail.980807095203.mw@freibergnet.de> In-Reply-To: <35C9DD28.2E9749D3@webber.net.ua>
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On 06-Aug-98 Andrew Petrenko wrote: () Need help. () i run FoxPro 2.6. for SCO on FreeBSD and get error () () Too many files open. () () in login.conf i set () ... () openfiles=254 () openfiles-cur=254 () ... () () what can i do for run FoxPro? I haven't run FoxPro, but probably editing login.conf is not enough: have you built a custom kernel? Have a look at /sys/i386/conf/LINT: # # Under some circumstances it is convenient to increase the defaults # for the maximum number of processes per user and the maximum number # of open files files per user. E.g., (1) in a large news server, user # `news' may need more than 100 concurrent processes. (2) a user may # need lots of windows under X. In both cases, it may be inconvenient # to start all the processes from a parent whose soft rlimit on the # number of processes is large enough. The following options work by # changing the soft rlimits for init. # options CHILD_MAX=128 options OPEN_MAX=128 This may be the limitation you run into. If you haven't already made a custom kernel, it's a good point to start with /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC: copy it, and add the options mentioned above and increase them. For my desktop machine, I've used 256/256, as that's yet enough (although with 128 MByte RAM I wouldn't have problems increasing it more, it's just being somewhat conventional). For building a new kernel, consult the documentation - look at the FreeBSD handbook, section 19 (Add New Kernel Configuration Options). If you have already made that, check your user limits. May be, you have done something wrong in /etc/login.conf or simply haven't added the appropriate class for the login in /etc/passwd. I'm using bash 2.01.1 as included in the ports for 2.2.6-RELEASE, the built-in ulimit command gives the necessary information: mw@zoo:/home/wheel/mw 659 $ ulimit -a core file size (blocks) unlimited data seg size (kbytes) 262144 file size (blocks) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes) unlimited max memory size (kbytes) 32768 open files 1024 pipe size (512 bytes) 1 stack size (kbytes) 65536 cpu time (seconds) unlimited max user processes 64 virtual memory (kbytes) 327680 Dunno about other shells. As I'm simply to lazy to change the information to something making more sense, I've given myself same limits as the root account, because of that I never have to care about limits. You'll have to check for your own if this is a good way :-) As I'm the only one working on my machine, it's no problem. And if some application crashes or eats up memory, I don't have to care, at least, not yet :-) Regards, Martin -- Liebscher & Partner Werbeagentur GbR // Martin Welk Advertising, Art Design & DTP // network administration Xlink Point Of Presence Freiberg // phone: (+49|0) 3731 781-387 Am St. Niclas Schacht 13 // fax: (+49|0) 3731 781-377 D-09599 Freiberg, Germany // http://www.freibergnet.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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