Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:21:16 +0200 (EET) | From | Vasil Kolev <> | Subject | Re: FAQ followup: changes in open fd/proc in 2.4.x? |
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On 17 Nov 2000, Doug Alcorn wrote:
> I am working on a project to port a commercial app to Linux. Our app > is essentially a dataserver with approximately two files per database > table. I did a search of this mailing lists archive on the subject > and found a discussion back in the 2.0.x days when the limit was 256. > Basically the discussion went like this: <--cut-> > With the 2.2.x kernel, our choices are basically to live with the > limitation or redesign. We certainly don't like the limitation and > are talking about a redesign. > I have some similar problems on 2.2.xx , and i do the following: echo 65535 >/proc/sys/fs/file-max and then in the scripts that start the programs: ulimit -n 65535 And everyting is fine... Even better, you can use setrlimit() to set this in your program...( and even do the echo ... > ... there :))) )
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