[svlug] file descriptors

[Karen Shaeffer]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:24:55AM -0700, Nate Campi wrote:
> > I was told the default on a Linux machine is 8k and the max is 64k. I
> > see linux machines that boot indeed like this:
> > 
> > $ cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
> > 8192

If you want to change it, see the NR_FILE macro here:

include/linux/fs.h

cheers,
Karen
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