max open file descriptors

max open file descriptors

[Sirius Black]

Hi to all,

I was wondering on how much the FD limit can be increased
whitout having any problems; i've searched on the net and found 
some docs which says 2048 and others 4096....

Which is the maximum number of open FD can i set?

Thanks

Barbieri Roberto

Re: max open file descriptors

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 11:37, Sirius Black wrote:
> Hi to all,
> 
> I was wondering on how much the FD limit can be increased
> whitout having any problems; i've searched on the net and found 
> some docs which says 2048 and others 4096....
> 
> Which is the maximum number of open FD can i set?

For 2.2 there are real per process limitations, for 2.4 it basically
depends how much RAM you have

RE: max open file descriptors

[Mohamed Ghouse , Gurgaon]

Can I know the limit for 2.2?

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Cox [mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk]
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 5:31 PM
To: Sirius Black
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: max open file descriptors


On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 11:37, Sirius Black wrote:
> Hi to all,
> 
> I was wondering on how much the FD limit can be increased
> whitout having any problems; i've searched on the net and found 
> some docs which says 2048 and others 4096....
> 
> Which is the maximum number of open FD can i set?

For 2.2 there are real per process limitations, for 2.4 it basically
depends how much RAM you have

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