[ale] Max Descriptors?

[Fulton Green]

Also, RTFM:

man bash
(then hit "/" to search for "ulimit")

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 06:06:51PM -0400, Michael Kachline ext 2848 wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 attriel at d20boards.net wrote:
> 
> > Hey folks,
> > 
> > Is there any way to figure out what the max # descriptors available are? 
> > Where by descriptors I might accept openfiles?
> 
> 
> I believe...
> 
> $ cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
> 
> ... is what you are looking for. Just "echo NNNNNN > 
> /proc/sys/fs/file-max" to increase the max file descriptors.

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