From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 18 08:08:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA28348 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 08:08:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from roguetrader.com (cold.org [206.81.134.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA28080 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 08:02:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brandon@roguetrader.com) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by roguetrader.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA05360 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 09:02:53 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 09:02:52 -0700 (MST) From: Brandon Gillespie To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Increasing maximum file descriptors (for max sockets) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a server running that needs several hundred connections. Just now we ran into a problem (at the time we had 200+ conns to the server in question) and the whole box froze (current version is 2.2.2-R). logs: Dec 17 14:20:24 ice syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system Dec 17 14:20:24 ice /kernel: file: table is full Dec 17 14:20:24 ice last message repeated 96 times And so on. On first glimpse through the kernel config file I can't seem to find anything to increase the amount of file descriptors. Where is this done? I cannot find anything about it in the docs... -Brandon