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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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