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authorrwatson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>2001-12-07 18:02:16 +0000
committerrwatson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>2001-12-07 18:02:16 +0000
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o Add a mention of kern.openfiles to the description of kern.maxfiles,
and suggest using this value to get a sense of the needs of the system.
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@@ -509,6 +509,10 @@ sysctl determines how many open files the system supports.
The default is
typically a few thousand but you may need to bump this up to ten or twenty
thousand if you are running databases or large descriptor-heavy daemons.
+The read-only
+.Va kern.openfiles
+sysctl may be interrogated to determine the current number of open files
+on the system.
.Pp
The
.Va vm.swap_idle_enabled
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