Re: File desc num. on FreeBSD 2.1.6

In article <57kbfa$48s$1@al.imforei.apana.org.au> you wrote:

: Forget it... just figured it out!

: Took me two days, and when I have sent this message, and got back
: to my FBSD box to look around, found the solution (and reason why only
: 256 fdescs)!

 Bumping up sysctl variables...

  kern.maxfiles: 4096
  kern.maxfilesperproc: 2048

 and some shells (ie csh/tcsh) use "limit descriptors ...."

 FWIW I did a test on a 2.1.5-stable machine and a 3.0-current
 machine with a bit of code to open 2000 file descriptors at
 the same time.

 On the 2.1.5 system the process was using ~25 mb with all
 descriptors open, and the 3.0 system was using about 20...

 Peter

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