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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!news.hooked.net!usenet From: Ian Kallen <ian@gamespot.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: increasing nfiles? Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 15:44:38 -0700 Organization: SpotMedia Communications Lines: 13 Message-ID: <31ED6CD6.79B4@gamespot.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tech-a.gamespot.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I) I get errors that the file table is full when I have too many httpd processes running -- I've also seen this error when the mail queue grows excessively. I'm aware that some UNIX flavors have reconfiguration scripts for adjusting parameters such as nfiles -- I guess I need to build a bigger kernel but I'm not sure where to look! I'm using 2.1.0 off the CD (I'd like to migrate to 2.1.5 so I can get past the damn sysconfig bug that is preventing me from adding another disk but with the worries about support for the 3c509 I guess I'm SOL). Anyway, steps to be taken to tweak the nfiles parameter (at least that's what I'm told I need to do) would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!