Re: /proc/sys/fs/file-max broken in 2.4.22-pre5

Andrew Burgess (aab@cichlid.com)
Mon, 14 Jul 2003 13:11:00 -0700


Willy wrote:

>On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 03:31:54PM -0700, Andrew Burgess wrote:
>
>> root@athlon:/root # echo 60000 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
>> root@athlon:/root # cc file-max.c
>> root@athlon:/root # a.out
>> Too many open files
>> opened 1021 files
>> root@athlon:/root # uname -a
>> Linux athlon 2.4.22-pre5 #2 SMP Sun Jul 13 12:38:04 PDT 2003 i686 unknown
>
>ulimit -n ?

It works without ulimit on earlier kernels but sure enough this
fixed it on 22-pre5. Thank you!

I assume ignoring ulimit was a bug that is now fixed?

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