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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: OPEN_MAX Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 10:54:15 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 16 Message-ID: <33936B37.465C@OntheNet.com.au> References: <5mnco0$arj$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: cml@ucdavis.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42086 Chris Lambertus wrote: > > Hi, > > I've just installed a 2.2.2-R distribution, and I'm trying to > get the maximum open file descriptors up to 2048. (The machine > will be an IRC server.) I started by setting things to 2048 > in my login class, which resulted in a limit of 360 fd's. > At that point, I set OPEN_MAX in the kernel to 2048 and > recompiled. Now my limit shows 1064. What else do I need to > do to get this limit up to the level I need? You arn't able to do a 'ulimit -n 2048' (or 'limit ...' if using a different shell)? Tony