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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: gpk@paw.montana.com (Greg Knoyle) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Open files and Memory yet again. Date: 19 Jun 1994 22:58:54 -0500 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 31 Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <9406192200.aa25199@paw.montana.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.cs.utexas.edu OK guys maybe i'm just an idiot but let me detail my little adventure. So far to set up unlimited open files i have gotten these changes to make to the .profile in the csh shell. unlimit openfiles unlimit memoryuse or limit openfiles unlimited limit memoryuse unlimited or limit openfiles unlimited limit datasize unlimited Now then the application I am running is a rather large mud called ThunderDome. The problem is when it gets to exactly 50 players the syslog starts spitting out to many openfiles errors. Hence any files can't be written and for thoseof you that have played muds it also means your eq gets lost when you rent. Concerning the above csh setups. None of them have solved the problem. Are they in application any different from each other? Or are they all basically thesame setup? I have been looking for the FreeBSD docs and everytime someone mails me the supposed FTP site and path I ftp over and nothing nada zip. Any ideas on my confusion? Oh just in case i missed this. The mud was running on a different BSD machine for a year with well over 100 players at times. We made no changes to the code so it's not the actual game that is limiting the players it's somewhere in the os. Thanks Greg Knoyle