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From: Gunnar Pruessner <pruess@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: maxfiles/fstat
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 03:17:54 +0000
Organization: Home sweet home
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CC: pruess
Hi!
Looking in /usr/src/sys/conf/param.c I found
#define NPROC (20 + 16 * MAXUSERS)
maxfiles=NPROC*2;
Since I compiled the kernel with MAXUSERS=10, maxfiles must be 360 -
but using fstat I found more than 360 open files.
Looking in /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_descrip.c I found
[...]
if (nfiles >= maxfiles) {
tablefull("file");
return (ENFILE);
}
[...]
But I never found such a message (something like "table full" or "too
many open files in system") in /var/log/messages. So I tried to open as
much files as possible and found a number of about 600 - WHY?!?!
Thank you for your help!
Gunnar
PS: Please send me your answer as an email.