Re: Out of filedescriptors

From: Oskar Pearson <oskar@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:41:33 +0200 (GMT)

Hello

> But by now the load is that high, that our Linux-Box runs out of
> Filedescriptors.
>
> Does anyone has experiance in how to increase the maximum number of
> open filedescriptors from 256 to 2048. I know this has to be some changes
> in kernel sources and recompilation.
> I tried hard to find the right places and changed fs.h and limit.h ... and
> recompiled .... but crash !!!!
Don't worry - I know the feeling!

> If anybody has real knowledge about this subject ..... please answer !!
Yep - I wrote the html page ;)

http://www.linux.org.za/tweak.html

(I have increased it to 1024 on our cache, and it has been stable for
3.1 million hits...)

        Oskar

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Received on Fri Nov 22 1996 - 03:44:09 MST

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