Subject: Re: "Too many open files" hang in 1.3 and 1.3.3
To: Gunnar Helliesen <gunnar@bitcon.no>
From: Zdenek Salvet <salvet@ics.muni.cz>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/03/1999 17:31:45
> Zdenek Salvet wrote:
> > 
> > You should check "fstat -p `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`" command I have
> > recommended before. "Too many open files" error message says that
> > *per process* descriptor limit is reached, not system limit.
> 
> Ah, OK. I misunderstood your previous message.
> 
> Lemme see, right now things are relatively slow (only 38 FTP users) and
> inetd has 33 open files.
> 
> 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>

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