Subject: Re: Time to bump the default open files limit?
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/21/2002 19:45:45
[ On Friday, June 21, 2002 at 15:14:17 (-0700), Jonathan Stone wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Time to bump the default open files limit? 
>
> 
> >I don't know of any unix or unix-like multi-user systems that only
> >allow(ed) 64 open files as as a hard limit (assuming you're talking
> >about the hard limit enforced by MAXFILES aka kern.maxfiles, since
> >that's the only hard limit w.r.t. open files).
> 
> Mini-Unix on PDP-11/10 (no mmu) was in that region or lower, if memory serves.

Mert you mean, or some other?

In any case that's why I qualified it with "multi-user" :-)

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