What would be the appropriate value for kern.maxfiles

Ramesh Ayyagari rameshayyagari at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 18 15:18:37 PST 2008


Hello All,

I have my client system running FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 with 4 GB of RAM. This morning i have the following errors popping up on the console log - 

postfix/qmgr[94057]: fatal: socket: Too many open files

Googling for this error, I found this is someway related to the kernel parameter kern.maxflies and increasing this value can have errors go away. The present value of this parameter is 24000. I also found this also depends of the RAM we have on the system.

what would the appropriate value for kern.maxfiles for a system having 2GB RAM, a system having 4 GB and a system having 16GB of RAM. Please help

-Ram



      


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