On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > the fly, try
> >
> > # sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=abiggernumberthanitisnow
> >
> > and set it to a bigger number than it is now.
> >
> > # sysctl kern.maxfiles
>
> just up'd her to 8192 from 4136 ... thanks, forgot about the sysctl value
> for this, was dreading having to recompile :(
I had to do it a couple of months ago on one of my machines. It was
almost at a year of uptime and I didn't want to reboot if I didn't
have to!
Vince.
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