file descriptors on FreeBSD

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Sun Dec 8 21:51:12 GMT 2002


>Sendmail does not give this error on every message, only a few per day.  Are
>there any FreeBSD experts out there?

FWIW, you can also increase the FD limits immediately by doing:

sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=65536

and

sysctl -w kern.maxfilesperproc=32768

as root.. but, adding it to /etc/sysctl.conf is the best way to preserve
the change across reboots..

--Mike



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