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From: hwr@pilhuhn.de (Heiko W.Rupp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Number of max available file descriptors?
Date: 20 Sep 1995 10:28:26 +0200
Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn
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References: <43kj47$2q8@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <MICHAELV.95Sep18163106@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
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michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:

>system shows me a default of 64 fd's.  If I "unlimit descriptors"
>(tcsh; other shells have slightly different syntax for the same
>thing), I can get 3404 (not sure where that limit is set).

This normally comes from the number of maxusers. With maxusers = 15 I get
~900 fd's.

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