I have been poking around (as you may have heard) with max
process sizes and things.  One thing that I came up with was the
following output:

[3:12:190]root@sol:/etc> ulimit -a
core file size (blocks)  unlimited
data seg size (kbytes)   16384
file size (blocks)       unlimited
max memory size (kbytes) 14152
stack size (kbytes)      512
cpu time (seconds)       unlimited
max user processes       40
pipe size (512 bytes)    1
open files               64
virtual memory (kbytes)  16896
[3:13:191]root@sol:/etc> ulimit -Ha
core file size (blocks)  unlimited
data seg size (kbytes)   65536
file size (blocks)       unlimited
max memory size (kbytes) 14152
stack size (kbytes)      65536
cpu time (seconds)       unlimited
max user processes       unlimited
pipe size (512 bytes)    1
open files               9223372036854775807
virtual memory (kbytes)  131072

	I'd like to know if 9223372036854775807 a meaningful number.

Dave.

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