Kris Kennaway wrote:

Having a hard limit is by design, or users could run your machine out
of memory and cause it to panic.

# sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=20000 kern.maxfiles: 12328 -> 20000

Ok, I agree. Must've confused something here. I was under the impression that it was fixed at boot. The user issue could be tackled with ulimit, however probably not in a completely satisfactory way (with resource limits being per-process, not per-user. Sometimes a bit of VMS would be nice ;).

mkb.
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