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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!hp-cv!hp-pcd!sdd.hp.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!snert!not-4-mail From: hwr@pilhuhn.de (Heiko W.Rupp) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Number of max available file descriptors? Date: 20 Sep 1995 10:28:26 +0200 Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn Lines: 12 Message-ID: <43ojba$9re@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.de> References: <43kj47$2q8@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <MICHAELV.95Sep18163106@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pilhuhn.de michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: >system shows me a default of 64 fd's. If I "unlimit descriptors" >(tcsh; other shells have slightly different syntax for the same >thing), I can get 3404 (not sure where that limit is set). This normally comes from the number of maxusers. With maxusers = 15 I get ~900 fd's. -- Heiko W.Rupp Gerwigstr.5 D-76131 Karlsruhe +49 721 9661524 Nicht hupen - pilhuhn traeumt von neg