On 2006/08/27 17:09, Mackan wrote: > I did "sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=10000" to increase the value from > 1772 to 10000, and put the same value in /etc/sysctl.conf
Keep an eye on kern.nfiles, if it's higher than expected take a look at fstat and check there isn't a problem. I had a box where a program was holding too many files open and ran this as part of a script from cron while I was determining what was causing the problem: nfiles=`/sbin/sysctl -n kern.nfiles` [ $nfiles -ge 1500 ] && echo kern.nfiles=$nfiles && fstat && ps wwalxkossiz > I think 1772 files seems to be too low as default. Is it? Depends what the machine is used for; considering the defaults in login.conf(5) it doesn't seem that bad. If you have raised the login.conf values you should probably have raised maxfiles too. > And is 10000 a too high value? Depends, again.
