On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> > > The 'safe_mysqld' script I use has an option to raise the limit:
> > > /usr/pkg/bin/safe_mysqld --open-files-limit=256

Passing that option when starting mysqld works.  I don't understand why 
the errno:23 was reported, since this was really a mysql thing, not a 
NetBSD / kernel thing.

Sorry for all the traffic on what turns out to be an off-topic issue.

And, thanks for the help and patience.

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Cheers!

Randy