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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news1.digital.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!news.Stanford.EDU!jessica.Stanford.EDU!fangchin From: fangchin@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Number of max available file descriptors? Date: 18 Sep 1995 20:00:07 GMT Organization: Stanford University Lines: 15 Message-ID: <43kj47$2q8@nntp.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: jessica.stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] One of our heavily used SS2 running SunOS 4.1.3U1B kept running out file descriptors when certain jobs were running. We fixed it for the time being by hacking the code and adding in a setrlimit() to get the max from SunOS everytime these jobs are run. I wonder whether NetBSD has higher file descriptor upper limit (Solaris has 1024, Irix has 2048)? If so, perhaps we can migrate to it and get a more comfortable room? Would appreciate it very much for a pointer or answer. Thanks and regards, Chin Fang fangchin@jessica.stanford.edu