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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.cstone.net!megabyte From: pauln@cstone.net (Paul Nguyen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: IS Bumping up CHILD_MAX and OPEN_MAX safe? Date: Tue, 05 Mar 96 00:52:33 GMT Organization: Cornerstone Networks, Inc. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4hg39k$63b@dot.cstone.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: megabyte.cstone.net X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 I was wondering if it is safe for me to bump up the value in the kernel configuration of CHILD_MAX and OPEN_MAX? Here is what I have in my Kernel options. option "CHILD_MAX=512" option "OPEN_MAX=512" I am doing this to allow apache to be able to fork more processes. I have had some crashes with this configuration, so now I am wondering if this is the culprit. I find that the filesystem is getting hosed and I have to reinstall FreeBSD from scratch. I am just trying to narrow down the problem. So if someone who knows more about this please reply. Thanks. -Paul