Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > it opens a truly amazing 18,000 odd file descriptors. > > wine client error:9a: pipe: Too many open files > > The problem is, that I don't know what limit is being used > for this. In theory, the OPEN_MAX macro should tell me, > but for some reason this is defined on my box as 256 (red > hat 8), even though sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) says "1024".
That's probably a per process limit. See instead $ cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr 1844 1331 26208 (alloc (used) (max) ated) > something is a bit broken here. Probably, but I can't help you with that... Feri.