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From: j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: How to increase # of allowable open files at a time for GCC?
Date: 5 Jul 1993 17:19:05 +0200
Organization: Textil Computer Design GmbH, Dresden, Germany
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Message-ID: <219gp9INNa04@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
References: <C9Ao9K.EqD@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <1993Jun27.215413.815@sophia.smith.edu>
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Keywords: GCC files
In article <1993Jun27.215413.815@sophia.smith.edu> jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (J Fieber) writes:
>In article <C9Ao9K.EqD@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> th2tran@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Thanh Hai Tran) writes:
>>Does anyone out there know how I can make 386BSD allow more files to be opened
>>at a time?
>
>In the configuration file for your kernel (/src/i386/conf/<your-system>)
>there is a parameter "maxusers". [...]
>
>So, check to see what your maxusers is set at and try increasing
>it.
>
Another matter (btw: strange, i never saw this), in csh you can query
the currently applicable rlimits, just type ``limit''. The parameter
``openfiles'' sets another (arbitrary) limit. Since there's no hard
limit, you can say e.g. ``limit openfiles unlimited'' if you suspect
problems there. (Of course, you can't really raise the limit above
the number mentioned in the other posting.)
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