> >spamd(8) says the default is 800, which is actually a compiled-in
> >limit and is quite generous for most situations. The consequences of
> >raising it are not immediately obvious, but I imagine could be
> >entertaining.
because if you go much beyond it you need to consider things like
kern.maxfiles, etc. etc.
Making spamd want to use more file descriptors than the kernel can
give you is usually not advisable. the hard limit of 800 is a
conservative safe upper bound for a stock OpenBSD system running GENERIC.
-Bob
