On 9/13/06, Alex McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
IIRC the command 'ulimit' manages the maximum number of fd's on linux. 'ulimit unlimited' does what it says.
On our system, % ulimit -n 1024 So its quite possible that this is the problem, but On 9/13/06, Martin Rydstr|m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 09:43:50AM +0100, Gisle Sælensminde wrote: > That limit can be adjusted with the ulimit command in (in bash, limit in > tcsh). For > > % ulimit -n # prints the maximal number of open files > 1024 > > % ulimit -n 4096 #sets the maximal number of files to 4096 That changes the maximum number of open files; it doesn't change how well select handles a set of files, when there are many, if I have understood it all correctly.
So even increasing this limit may not solve it? Is there any fix? Thanks, Chaitanya
