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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!wupost!bigboy.sbc.com!news.mtholyoke.edu!news.smith.edu!sophia.smith.edu!jfieber From: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (J Fieber) Subject: Re: How to increase # of allowable open files at a time for GCC? Message-ID: <1993Jun27.215413.815@sophia.smith.edu> Keywords: GCC files Sender: root@sophia.smith.edu (Operator) Organization: Smith College References: <C9Ao9K.EqD@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1993 21:54:13 GMT Lines: 26 In article <C9Ao9K.EqD@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> th2tran@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Thanh Hai Tran) writes: >Does anyone out there know how I can make 386BSD allow more files to be opened >at a time? (sort of an equivalence of FILES = xx in DOS CONFIG.SYS file) >Your help will be very much appreciated!...Thanks! In the configuration file for your kernel (/src/i386/conf/<your-system>) there is a parameter "maxusers". Though this does not enforce the number of people that log in at one time, it is used to calculate the sizes for lots of things such as the number files that can be active at one time. According to the docs I have handy the value is: (nproc + 16 + maxusers) + 32 where nproc is: 20 + 8 * maxusers So, check to see what your maxusers is set at and try increasing it. -john -- === jfieber@sophia.smith.edu ================================================ === 42 19 30 N 72 38 30 W ========== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush ===