Re: max open file descriptors

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
19 Aug 2002 13:01:10 +0100


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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