AW: Still much more than 350 sockets needed!

[Olivier Galibert]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 02:34:55PM -0600, Lamont R. Peterson wrote:
> Where do you put that?  There is no "limit" command and ulimit doesn't accept 
> "descriptors" as a parameter.

limit descriptors is (t)csh, the (ba)sh equivalent is ulimit -n.  Use
ulimit -a for the complete list.


> I'd certainly like to know the answer, too.

/etc/security/limits.conf is I think what you want.


> BTW:  With 1GB RAM minimum on all my notebooks and workstations (and on a 
> couple of my personal servers), it wouldn't bother me to increase that 
> default to 5120 or 10240 even.  Of course, that change could require a much 
> more in depth conversation.

I'd agree.  I'd love to know the kernel memory cost for a fd though.

  OG.