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Re: 1024 fd limit ?



On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:52:10AM +0100, Yann Dupont wrote:

> ydupont@Enya:/$ cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max 
> 16384

It is the system-wide limit (the sum of the number of files held open by
_all_ running processes can be 16384). The per-process limit is hardcoded
in /usr/src/linux/include/linux/limits.h:

#define NR_OPEN         1024

Gabor

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Gabor Gombas                                       Eotvos Lorand University
E-mail: gombasg@inf.elte.hu                        Hungary