Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 08 May 2001 11:32:52 +0000 | From | Federico Edelman Anaya <> | Subject | Re: fs.file-max |
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Dan: Hi ...
Dan Kegel wrote:
> 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.
Ok ...
> > > > ulimit -n 8192 > > That sets the per-process limit (for this process > and its children) to 2048. >
But, my perl script could open 8192 files ... I don't understand exactly work ... which is the limit of FD? file-max?
> > > 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 > > - Dan
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