too many open files. How to increase the limit

[Peter Gordon]

Ambrogio wrote:
> I don't remember how to change the limit.
> Can you help me?

`ulimit -n` will print the current limit of maximum open file
descriptors; and if you add a number to that, it becomes the new
limit. For example, if you want to set it to have up to 65536 open
file descriptors at once, something like `ulimit -n 65536` will do
it.
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Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
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