I believe that there's a global limit of 1024 files open by default.
To increase it, echo a larger number to /proc/sys/kernel/file-max
You'll probably want to increase /proc/sys/kernel/inode-max by a similar ratio
at the same time.
> PS. Is there an equivlalent to "maxusers" in Linux that is present in
> other kernels, like Digital Unix?
No. That's purely a licensing restriction. We have no need for it.
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