These are values recommended by an application I want to install on my Openbsd
machine.
Since I have a hard time to make it work properly, I want to apply their
settings before thightening things
I'm still in test mode.
Le vendredi 16 novembre 2018 à 12:07:25 UTC+1, Otto Moerbeek
<[email protected]> a écrit :
On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 10:46:12AM +0000, Mik J wrote:
> Hello,
> Thank you to both of you.
> I had already changed openfiles-max=65536 in login.conf and
> kern.maxproc=16384 in sysctl.conf.
> Have a nice day
But why?
-Otto
>
> Le vendredi 16 novembre 2018 à 11:18:42 UTC+1, Otto Moerbeek
><[email protected]> a écrit :
>
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 10:55:23AM +0100, Martijn van Duren wrote:
>
> > On 11/16/18 10:24 AM, Mik J wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Does anyone know how to change these values ?
> > >
> > > # sysctl kern.nprocs=52
> > > sysctl: kern.nprocs: Operation not permitted
> > > # sysctl kern.nfiles=575
> > > sysctl: kern.nfiles: Operation not permitted
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > See sysctl(2):
> > Second level name Type Changeable
> > ..
> > KERN_NFILES integer no
> > ..
> > KERN_NPROCS integer no
> > ..
> > KERN_NFILES (kern.nfiles)
> > Number of open files.
> > ..
> > KERN_NPROCS (kern.nprocs)
> > The number of entries in the kernel process table.
> >
> > If you want to change the maximum number of open files/processes take a
> > look at ksh(1) ulimit or csh(1) limit and login.conf(5).
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > martijn@
>
> There are also kern.maxfiles and kern.maxproc for system wide limits.
> But in most cases,these values do not need to be changed.
>
> -Otto
>
>
