> For the whole system, its very easy:
>
> echo 4096 >/proc/sys/fs/file-max
You can also use the sysctl(8) command:
sysctl -w fs.file-max=131072
> Note that you'll have to do that at boot-time to (probably in
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local).
Just curious, but why would you have to do this at boot time? As far as
I can see you can increase it whenever (from get_empty_filp() in
fs/file_table.c):
:
:
/*
* Allocate a new one if we're below the limit.
*/
if (nr_files < max_files) {
f = kmem_cache_alloc(filp_cache, SLAB_KERNEL);
if (f) {
nr_files++;
goto new_one;
}
/* Big problems... */
printk("VFS: filp allocation failed\n");
} else if (max_files > old_max) {
printk("VFS: file-max limit %d reached\n", max_files);
old_max = max_files;
}
:
:
Pat
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