I tried raising other values than kern.maxfiles, such as vm.filemax, 
vm.execmax, vm.anonmax but I still get that error. any hint why I get that 
error ?

	  root@p3:/home/phil/sc3u-2.0a-x86/->bin/FreeBSD/x86/loki_patch patch.dat
	  Computing MD5 sums for new uninstaller, this may take a while...
	   63%
	  ** WARNING **: open /usr/local/games/SC3U/lib/libSimGeom.so failed: Too
	  many * open files
 
          ERROR: Failed patch delta on /usr/local/games/SC3U/lib/libSimGeom.so


Thanks, philippe


* No, it should just work dynamically.  :-(
*
* Sorry, ask around, I'm sure someone else knows what that would mean.
* Perhaps there's something in the Linux mode that limits open files?
*
* On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 02:17:50PM +0000, Philippe St-Jacques wrote:
* > sysctl -a reports :
* > kern.maxfiles = 1772
* >
* > I did a sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=2000
* >
* > I still get the same error. Values of 10000 neither. Does kern.maxfiles
* > require some sort of entry in sysctl.conf and restart ?
* >
* > On August 22, 2003 06:11 pm, you wrote:
* > * How many open files does your system allow?
* > *
* > * I don't have a NetBSD box handy, but on FreeBSD there's the
* > * kern.maxfiles sysctl.  IIRC, NetBSD has something very similar...
* > *
*