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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!pdd.3com.com!padlock.pdd.3com.com!mumble From: rob@pickering.org (Rob Pickering) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Too many open files... any solution? Date: Wed, 12 Jun 96 14:47:21 GMT Organization: None - personal opinion only Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4pml9p$nc_001@pickering.org> References: <4pk2ce$1urs@mule2.mindspring.com> <4pm1bb$91v@innocence.interface-business.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: rannoch.pdd.3com.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 In article <4pm1bb$91v@innocence.interface-business.de>, j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) wrote: >> >> limit openfiles unlimited >> >> The number then goes up to 650 (from 64). > >That's the hard limit. Run ``limit -h'' to see the various hard >limits. Not even root can unlimit beyond these values. The above statement is incorrect (at least for BSD/OS 2.1), root can overide *some* of the hard limits (but openfiles isn't one of them!). The manpage for csh states that the super-user can overide all of the hard limits but this is demonstrably not the case - presumably because the maximum is bounded by kernel and architectural constants in some cases. -- Rob.