No, I don't run servers for a business. I am just a computer tinker.
SirDice said:@FBSDin20Steps and rbizzell33, kern.maxfiles can only be set before the kernel starts. Hence it must be set in /boot/loader.conf.
# sysctl kern.maxfiles
kern.maxfiles: 8008
# sysctl kern.maxfiles=25000
kern.maxfiles: 8008 -> 25000
# sysctl kern.maxfiles
kern.maxfiles: 25000
tuning(7)crsd said:Where is it documented?
The kern.maxfiles sysctl determines how many open files the system supâ€
ports. 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
descriptorâ€heavy daemons. The readâ€only kern.openfiles sysctl may be
interrogated to determine the current number of open files on the system.
crsd said:Can't find anything about kern.maxfiles being READ-ONLY anywhere in that manpage.