>  | 
>  | The "fixed" is the unacceptable part. (Myself, I would support increasing
>  | the current default limit, but that is *not* what you said.)
>
>I suspect the "fixed" in the original was not meant as you have interpreted
>it, but in contrast to "whatever max vnodes happens to be".

If so, then someone needs a short sharp shock^H^H^H^H^H reminder that
sockets count as open fds, too.  The apps I mentioned opening 6,000 to
10,000 fds in a single process were opening thousands of network sockets.