[Cialug] open files

[Renegade Muskrat]

I don't know about a system-wide setting, but for an individual login 
session you can do "ulimit -n 4096", where 4096 is the number of files 
that should be available. On my machine that only works as root, 
however.

At 04:49 PM 1/25/2005 -0600, you wrote:
 >
 >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
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