Hi,
I think you misunderstood /proc/sys/fs/file-max meaning, it IS
an averall machine limit, not per process.
From linux kernel documentation
(/usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt):
"file-max & file-nr:
The kernel allocates file handles dynamically, but as yet it
doesn't free them again.
T
Hi,
Does anyone know what the story is for file-descriptor limits
on Linux ?
I read in
http://www.xenoclast.org/doc/benchmark/HTTP-benchmarking-HOWTO/node7.html
that root needs to set /proc/sys/fs/file-max to a high value
in order that "ulimit -n " will work.
However, on a Debian Woody
