open file at same time

Chris Kloiber ckloiber at ckloiber.com
Wed May 5 03:12:43 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 17:53, Alain Thiebauld wrote:
> How many file can I open at same time with Fedora ?
> Is here setting to change that ?
> 
> Thank

The number of open files available for *the whole system* is set int
/proc/sys/fs/file-max. Per user, look in /etc/security/limits.conf,
which has fairly good comments. I use a single line per setting I
change, with the "-" replacing "hard" or "soft"

-- 
Chris Kloiber






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