>From: jspath@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us (Webmaster Jim)
>Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 23:24:01 -0500
>
>Apologies if you've read this... I got no answers, so changed the subject:
>I'm running beta1e of Arena, an HTML3 prototype browser, and it's
>choking on pages with many images (>50).  How can I change my open file
>limit to work around this?
>
>  HTErrorMsg
>  message: System call `socket' failed: Too many open files

Try adding 'unlimit desc' to your .login, or 'ulimit -n unlimited' to
your .profile.  Or, you can write a wrapper script for Arena with the
unlimit command, so that only the Arena process is affected.
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