In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Elie Rosenblum wrote:
>
>> And thus spake Craig Sanders, on Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 01:52:06AM +1100:
>> > is there any debian policy on number of file descriptors compiled into the
>> > kernel? (and also in limits.h in libc6-dev - AFAIK pretty much everything
>> > that uses select() will need to be recompiled if the limit is increased).
>>
>> This has been sysctl configurable in the runtime kernel since at most 2.0,
>> probably 1.3.
Not true. That's the global limit. The per-process limit is hardcoded at
256 fds per process in the 2.0.x kernel
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [08:41:43] kernel# cd /proc/sys/kernel/
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [08:41:58] kernel# ls -l *-max *-nr
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 7 08:40 file-max
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 7 08:40 file-nr
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 7 08:40 inode-max
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 7 08:40 inode-nr
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [08:42:41] kernel# echo 2048>file-max; echo
> 8192>inode-max
> bash: file-max: Bad file descriptor
> bash: inode-max: Bad file descriptor
You forgot a space. Try echo 2048 > file-max. 2048>file-max means something
entirely different in shell-syntax..
Mike.
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