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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!hookup!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Too many open files... any solution? Date: 12 Jun 1996 09:06:51 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4pm1bb$91v@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <4pk2ce$1urs@mule2.mindspring.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E mhall@homecom.com (Mike A. Hall) wrote: > It seems that "limit" doesn't maintain its settings. I am able to > restore "unlimited" number of openfiles by typing: > > limit openfiles unlimited > > The number then goes up to 650 (from 64). That's the hard limit. Run ``limit -h'' to see the various hard limits. Not even root can unlimit beyond these values. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j