How safe is sysctl(8) to change kern.maxfiles?

[FilSalustri]

I'm running 10.4.4 on a dual g5. In response to occasional but disabling system messages like: kernel[0]: file: table is full, I'm considering

% sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=25000

which is about 2x the current value.

How safe is this? Alternate solutions?

Thanks in advance.
Fil Salustri

 

[bbolin]

It should be safe. Kinda makes me wonder what applications you are running.

I have not done this with Darwin but I have with FreeBSD. Do it from the command line to see if the error goes away. You would make this entry on FreeBSD in /etc/sysctl.conf to keep after reboots. Don't know where it should go on Darwin