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Re: increase Number of filedescriptors

To: "Torsten Valentin" <winsock2@musiker.de>
Subject: Re: increase Number of filedescriptors
From: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:07:40 -0600
Cc: misc@openbsd.org
References: <002901c25e24$ae1376e0$02a9a8c0@valentin>

In message <002901c25e24$ae1376e0$02a9a8c0@valentin>
	so spake "Torsten Valentin" (winsock2):

> What are those limitations, why are they, where are they, how can I
> modify them? What disadvantages are there after modifying this to 20.000
> ?

I suspect you'll need to modify the kern.maxfiles sysctl
variable.  Run "sysctl kern.maxfiles" to see its value and 
"sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=N" to increase it to 'N'.

You may also need to adjust "openfiles-cur" the daemon entry in
/etc/login.conf.

 - todd

References:
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  - From: "Torsten Valentin" <winsock2@musiker.de>

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