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Date:      Mon, 20 Sep 1999 02:02:33 GMT
From:      mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
To:        kip@lyris.com (Kip Macy)
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc
Message-ID:  <37e5956b.344454689@mail.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <MAILPine.SOL.4.05.9909191513220.24965-100000@luna>
References:  <MAILPine.SOL.4.05.9909191513220.24965-100000@luna>

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On 19 Sep 1999 18:18:25 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.misc you 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.

Have a look at login.conf to limit the max files to what you need.

	---Mike
Mike Tancsa  (mdtancsa@sentex.net)		
Sentex Communications Corp,   		
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2)


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