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Date:      Mon, 20 Sep 1999 10:37:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Kip Macy <kip@lyris.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9909201036550.25698-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9909191513220.24965-100000@luna>

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On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Kip Macy 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.

  Howerver, login.conf controls those limits.  maxfilesperproc should
probably be deprecated now.

Tom



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