On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 01:18:56AM -0800, Lucky Green wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 5.3 on a dual CPU system with 1 GB of RAM with under a > dozen of very active users and a few rather active processes. The system > keeps running out of FDs, causing any number of problems, such as preventing > ssh logins. > > sysctl kern.maxfiles shows a maximum of 12328 FDs. My kernel config file has > "maxusers" set to 0, which means the kern.maxfiles limit must be the OS > default. > > What is the maximum number of FDs that can be set on a system with 1 GB of > RAM? What would it be for 2 GB of RAM? In other words, how many FDs can a > FreeBSD 5.3 system safely support for each GB of RAM?
A truly enormous number :-) You just need to increase the value of kern.maxfiles in /boot/loader.conf as appropriate for your workload. kris
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