Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 08 May 2001 07:08:40 -0700 | From | Dan Kegel <> | Subject | Re: fs.file-max |
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Federico Edelman Anaya (fedelman@elsitio.com.ar) wrote:
> What can I do to test the FD limit? ... Because, the FD limit is set in > /proc/sys/fs/file-max, sample: > > echo "2048" > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
That sets the systemwide limit to 2048.
> ulimit -n 8192
That sets the per-process limit (for this process and its children) to 2048.
> In this case ... the FD limit = 8192 :( ... when the limit should be > 2048?
No, the two limits are independant (except, obviously, that that process will reach the systemwide fd limit before it exhausts its per-process fd limit).
> I wrote a perl script for the test ... anybody known a "C" program for > test the FD limit?
http://www.kegel.com/dkftpbench/#tuning
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