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Re: File descript. and ulimit

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Uphoff)
Thu Oct 24 11:24:33 1996

Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:19:15 -0400
From: Jeff Uphoff <juphoff@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, October 24, 1996 10:53:20 -0200
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"JH" == Jacques Hugo <jacques@linkage.ctech.ac.za> writes:

JH> Has enyone ever got over the 256 "open files at a time" limit on 
JH> Linux RedHat.  If you run ulimit -a, it says that only 256 file can be
JH> opened at a time.  Now if you have shadow installed, it depends in the 
JH> Nxx setting in the /etc/limits file.

JH> Has anyone ever come over this problem?

You might try modifying the values in <linux/limits.h> and recompiling
the kernel; there's a "hard limit" established there.

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