Open-motif installation

[Doug White]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, raver wrote:

> > You seem to be hitting the # of files resource limit.  While this is
> > running do 'sysctl kern.openfiles' and see if it is getting close to
> > the
> > value of 'sysctl kern.maxfiles'.  If it is then you need to increase
> > kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfilesperproc.
> >
>
> I checked kern.maxfilesperproc and its value is 324 by default, so I
> increase it up to 20000, the same value as kern.maxfiles.

You may need to use the limit or ulimit command to raise your # of files
limit for your session after doing this (since it inherits the value at
process creation).  You might also check that to see what the current
setting is.

I remember running into that limit in the past, the motif build does
something lame that loads a huge number of manpages for some odd reason.

> # sysctl -a kern | grep files
> kern.maxfiles: 20000
> kern.maxfilesperproc: 20000
> kern.openfiles: 225
>
> Then I install open-motif showing the value of kern.openfiles during
> the process. That value never got further than 600 but I
>
> # while ( 1 )
> while? sysctl kern.openfiles && sleep 2
> while? end
> kern.openfiles: 224
> kern.openfiles: 232
> kern.openfiles: 236
> kern.openfiles: 235
> kern.openfiles: 226
> kern.openfiles: 228
> kern.openfiles: 228
> kern.openfiles: 228
> kern.openfiles: 228
> kern.openfiles: 228
> kern.openfiles: 228
> kern.openfiles: 250
> kern.openfiles: 541
> kern.openfiles: 219
> kern.openfiles: 219
> kern.openfiles: 219
>
> Cheers,
>
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