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From: dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Does leafnode work?
Date: 27 Jun 1997 11:25:43 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. - 415 964 BEST
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:In article <k3dvo5.06.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com>,
:Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> wrote:
:>In article <87lo3yxw1t.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl>,
:>Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl> wrote:
:>>
:>>I compiled it using gmake, but had to do some install things manually
:>>(esp. create the message.id directories). So I don't have a patch. But
:>>after running it a while I started getting 'too many open file'
:>>errors. I didn't sort this out further yet.
:>
:>You need to reconfig/rebuild your kernel to increase the size of the
:>system's tables.
:>
:>I'm currently using
:>
:>maxusers 32
:>options CHILD_MAX=256
:>options OPEN_MAX=512
Just set maxusers to 256. It can't hurt. Even so, I often find myself
raising the global max open file descriptors even higher... to 8192
(sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=8192).
2.2 also has absurdly low resource limits set in /etc/login.conf,
some of which make no sense at all. For example, in the standard
user defaults, the filesize limit is set to 8M there is a cputime
limit. Huh? A great way to break a machine, that's for sure.
-Matt