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Re: filedescriptors

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Irving)
Wed Nov 18 18:58:58 1998

Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:56:13 +0000 (GMT)
From: Jonathan Irving <Jonathan@browncat.com>
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On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Anthony Lemons wrote:

> Anyone know if there is a HOW-TO on increasing the filedescriptors from the
> default 256? Running RH 5.0 and 5.1.

the "ulimit" incantation seems to exist on my 5.2 install,
and I use it under Solaris to control the number of file
descriptors available to a process.  There's no man page
here though, and the "usage" message is terse.

HTH

cheers
Jonathan


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