Have you tried

		sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=5000

	(or other preferred number - run 'sysctl kern.maxfiles' first :)

	Or is it a per user limit?

		David/absolute

	-- Just adding to the wrinkles on his deathly frown... --

On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Tom T. Thai wrote:

> My news machine (1.3) is running out of file descriptors.. I've upped
> NMBCLUSTERS=4096 and set max users at 200, but inn still says it has too
> many open files, and goes into throttle.  This happens after the news
> machine is rebooted and running for a few hours.
> 
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