Re: too many files open

[Bill Stilwell <was@bc.sympatico.ca>]

On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 01:17:43PM -0800, aphro wrote:
> i believe this is a hard coded limit in the kernel, edit
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/limits.h and recompile
> 
> nate

This is true for 2.0 kernels, but can be adjusted without rebooting or
recompiling on 2.2 kernels by adjusting the value in
/proc/sys/fs/file-max

See previous debian-user dicussion at
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9906/msg01111.html

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