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From: heller@socko.cdnow.com (A. Karl Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Too many open files
Date: 14 Oct 1996 22:17:15 GMT
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Valentin Lisjak (lisko@sparc.eunet.si) wrote:
: I'm getting this message when trying to start named. I have P75 with
: 64MRAM and 2 disks [2G + 1G]

: I'm running full usenet feed and 62 virtual web servers (CERN). Machine
: is also secondary nameserver for ~500 domains. Everything
: worked just fine for 9 months.

: I guess there's possiblity to change max_no of opened file descriptors
: but I couldn't find it in manuals, usenet, FAQs, ...


 Try adjusting the "max users" number in the kernel conf file and rebuild.
I'm running it at 40 right now.