Well, maybe a patch will get things moving. I just submitted kern/15860
with a simple patch which reduces the default maxfilesperproc to be 20
less than maxfiles. I got the mailing list reference wrong in the PR, but
-hackers has it's share of similar requests :).
Kelly
On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Kip Macy wrote:
> I made the same comment several months ago and received a rather cool
> reception. I was simply told to change it to my liking in login.conf.
>
>
> -Kip
>
> On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, John W. DeBoskey wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On a FreeBSD 4.0-19991223-SNAP system...
> >
> > I just ran into a situation that caused me to have to reboot
> > the machine before understanding what had really happenned...
> >
> > The problems comes down to:
> >
> > kern.maxfiles: 4136
> > kern.maxfilesperproc: 4136
> >
> >
> > Thus, because I had a root uid server that looped chewing
> > up file descriptors, it also filled up the system file table.
> >
> > I realize this is end-user/administrator fixable, but I'm
> > not sure the default should have these be the same...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
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