Re: FD LIMITS in 2.1.95

Mikael Abrahamsson (swmike@swm.pp.se)
Sun, 26 Apr 1998 00:14:34 +0200 (MET DST)


On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Daniel Corbe wrote:

>
> How do I raise the maximum number of file descriptors that a
> program can have open in the linux 2.1.9X kernels? I remember it being
> #defined in limits.h in 2.0.X kernels, and I changed the limits.h #define
> but it didn't work =(

If possible, I think this should be in the make menuconfig, just like the
max memory part. Perhaps three choices, a max of 256, 1024 or 8192 FDs per
process, and then a few choices for the total number of FDs in the system.

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