Subject: RE: "Too many open files" hang in 1.3 and 1.3.3
To: 'salvet@ics.muni.cz' <salvet@ics.muni.cz>
From: Gunnar Helliesen <gunnar@bitcon.no>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/03/1999 22:10:18
Zdenek Salvet wrote:
> 
> > What controls the per process descriptor limit?
> > How can I see what the current value is and how can I increase it?
> 
> ulimit -n
> ulimit -S -n <new_value>

OK, so it's set by the shell. That was what I was asking, what/where is
the limit set.

Thanks.

Gunnar

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