Re: fs.file-max

Nathan Straz (nstraz@sgi.com)
Tue, 8 May 2001 09:37:47 -0500

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 10:03:23AM +0000, Federico Edelman Anaya wrote:
> What can I do to test the FD limit? ... Because, the FD limit is set in
> /proc/sys/fs/file-max, sample:
>
> echo "2048" > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
> ulimit -n 8192
>
> In this case ... the FD limit = 8192 :( ... when the limit should be
> 2048?
>
> I wrote a perl script for the test ... anybody known a "C" program for
> test the FD limit?

Hmm, we seem to be missing this test case from the Linux Test Project.
I see that dup03 exhausts all FDs and tests dup() for EMFILE. You could
easily adapt that test case to a setrlimit() test case. 

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Nate Straz                                              nstraz@sgi.com
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