Subject: Re: Too many open files in system
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E5llen?= <pollen@astrakan.hig.se>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/24/1999 12:19:48
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 10:34:10AM +0200, Pållen wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Jukka Marin wrote:
> 
> > How do I increase the maximum number of open files allowed?
> 
> limit descriptors <number-of-files>

This only affects one process, I'm hitting the system-wide limit.


On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 10:46:52AM +0200, Gunnar Helliesen wrote:

> Adjust: I have the following in my /etc/rc.local:
> 
> 
> echo 'Adjusting kern.maxfiles kernel parameter'
> /usr/sbin/sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=65536
> echo 'Done.'

I'm sure this will help.

Thanks to both of you!

  -jm