Re: Max open files in 2.2.x kernels.

Wojtek Pilorz (wpilorz@bdk.pl)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 14:16:33 +0200 (MET DST)


On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Pawel Mojski wrote:

> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:04:41 +0200 (EEST)
> From: Pawel Mojski <pawcio@link.pl>
> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Max open files in 2.2.x kernels.
>
> Hi,
> I got a big problem with 2.2.x kernels.
> I don't know hot to set i biger limit for max open files.
> In 2.0.x it was /proc/sys/kernel/file-max,
> kernel 2.2.x doesn't have this file and say me "To many open files in the
> system", I got a big system where the standart limit is to small.
> I don't know where set inodes max limit too.
> The file /proc/sys/kernel/inode-max gone too.
> How can I set these limit in 2.2.x kernels ?
>
> Greets,
>
>
What about /proc/sys/fs directory ?

[root@lin225box /root]# ls -l /proc/sys/fs/
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 23 13:57 binfmt_misc
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 23 13:57 dentry-state
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 23 13:57 dquot-max
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 23 13:57 dquot-nr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 23 13:57 file-max
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 23 13:57 file-nr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 23 13:57 inode-max
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 23 13:57 inode-nr
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 23 13:57 inode-state
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 23 13:57 super-max
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 23 13:57 super-nr

Look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
and /usr/src/linux/Documentation/proc.txt files
for some documentation.

Best regards,

Wojtek

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