Peter Haag wrote: > Hi list, > I'm running a moderate busy OpenBSD 6.0 server for mail ( postfix, cyrus ) as > well as > web server ( nginx, php ) and experiance the following kernel messages: > > /bsd: file: table is full > > /bsd: process: table is full > > Is there an advice or rule on how the values kern.maxfiles, kern.maxproc > should be set/increased > in order to avoid hitting these limits, or is it simply an increase to what > every value is appropriate?
increase as necessary, but investigate better process limits. the system limits are a last resort check against runaway processes, but it's better to hit per process/user limits first.
