[K12OSN] Too Many Open Files

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Mon Aug 30 17:24:24 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 11:55, Shawn Powers wrote:
> I'm not worried about the bittorrent client itself -- it was just a tool
> that SHOWED me there was a problem.  When 70 more users come in tomorrow
> to use use their thin clients, I'm sure they'll open more files than my
> azureus client -- even it I *am* download an entire season of MacGyver. ;)
> 

There is a per-process limit that defaults to 1024 which is probably
the one you hit, in addition to the system-wide limit.  A root
user can raise this with 'ulimit -n ' but in general it is a
good thing. 'ulimit -a' will show some other per-process or
per-user limits.

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com






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