There is always a hard limit of filedescriptors (based on the kernel configuration). But usually you can change the number of descriptors using "limit descriptors xxxx" under tcsh/csh. Under Bash I think you must call "ulimit".
Andreas ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Ziniti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 11:46 Subject: [Zope-dev] file descriptors on Solaris > I am running into a problem where Zope is trying to open too many > file descriptors (256) in order to process a POST. > > I'm not sure how to phrase this question, but my reading has suggested > that this limit may be set by the FILE struct in /usr/incldue/stdio.h. > > Does anyone know if this is used in Python/Zope? > > My first impression was that this problem would be easy to solve -- > just up the number of FD's, but now, I'm not so sure. Any > suggestions? > > Here's a traceback -- but I don't think it's much help > > Traceback (innermost last): > File /u05/ilocal/opt/Zope-2.4.0-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 223, in publish_module > File /u05/ilocal/opt/Zope-2.4.0-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 187, in publish > File /u05/ilocal/opt/Zope-2.4.0-src/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 226, in zpublisher_exception_hook > (Object: ApplicationDefaultPermissions) > File /u05/ilocal/opt/Zope-2.4.0-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 136, in publish > File /u05/ilocal/opt/Zope-2.4.0-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/HTTPRequest.py, line 405, in processInputs > File /ilocal/lib/python2.1/cgi.py, line 517, in __init__ > File /ilocal/lib/python2.1/cgi.py, line 606, in read_multi > File /ilocal/lib/python2.1/cgi.py, line 519, in __init__ > File /ilocal/lib/python2.1/cgi.py, line 616, in read_single > File /ilocal/lib/python2.1/cgi.py, line 636, in read_lines > File /ilocal/lib/python2.1/cgi.py, line 723, in make_file > File /ilocal/opt/Zope-2.4.0-src/lib/python/tempfile.py, line 155, in TemporaryFile > OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) > _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )