Re: Increase number of open files

Nick DeClario (nick@guardiandigital.com)
Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:27:54 -0400

/proc/sys/fs/file-max contains the max files. The default is 4096. Try
changing it to 8192, that should do the trick.

-Nick

Edouard Soriano wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Kernel used: 2.4.2-2 Redhat 7.0
>
> >From time to time I have to close some Windows on my system to perform
> some other tasks, like printing a document.
>
> There are no messages on the log files, but my understanding is
> a maximum number of concurrent files need to be modified.
>
> Is there some parameters in /proc to set up without the need to
> reconfigure the kernel ?
>
> Regards,
>
> E. Soriano
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