I'm trying to remember what is the command or parameter setting that allows Linux to have more files open? I think that is what I mean - maybe file descriptors? And how do I allocate more? Would something like this be right? echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max Kernel is 2.4ish. Thanks. -Nate Nathan Smith McKee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C. 515.288.3667