On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 12:48:30AM +0100, Keith wrote: > Hi, I am having trouble increasing the openfile limit in a default > install of OpenBSD 4.6 x64 from the default setting of 128 to say > 5000. I want to run Pound (reverse http proxy) stably without it > stopping at random times (Always seems to be the weekend) and to do > that I need to crank up the openfile limit. I think Pound runs with > the following account settings.... Type=deamon, user = _pound , > group= _pound > > I have tried tweaking a number of settings but haven't managed to > get the setting above 1024. Below are some of the settings we have > tried changing but without complete sucess. I should say that my > testing strategy is just to login as root and do a ulimit and see > what is returned, I don't know how to test the openfile limit for a > deamon account. > > On a default install doing a ulimit -n or -a returns an openfile > limit of 128 > > I know that if I do a ulimit -n 10000 the limit get's set at > maximum of 7030. I don't know if doing this change effects other > users and I am pretty sure it doesn't survive a reboot. > > I've done "sysctl kern.maxfiles=3000" for example but if I do a > ulimit -n after I get a different result although I can't remember > what it was > I also tried editing the sysctl.conf file and put the kern.maxfiles > entry in there but had similar results ! > > I've edited the login.conf file and changed the staff, default and > the daemon entries eg :openfiles-cur=2222:\ and then rebooted but > the highest I could get the openfile limit to is 1024 > > Could someone help ?
forgot to run cap_mkdb(1)? > Thanks > Keith -- [email protected] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
