Handbook: Tuning Kernel Limits (maxfiles)

[Leroy van Logchem]

Best FreeBSD doc,

Thanks for the fine documentation and many good manual pages.
While searching for the default number of 'open files' the 8.1-R
kernel can handle,
I started reading:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-kernel-limits.html

This mentions the dynamic setting of maxusers which in turn will
proportionally define maxfiles.
But it also states that the kern.maxfiles is read-only in regard to
sysctl changes, which doesn't
seem to be the case. I could increase this value using sysctl but it
this supported?


Regards,
Leroy van Logchem