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Subject: Re: max open file descriptors
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Sirius Black <sirius_ml@shellfreaks.cx>
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On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 11:37, Sirius Black wrote:
> Hi to all,
> 
> I was wondering on how much the FD limit can be increased
> whitout having any problems; i've searched on the net and found 
> some docs which says 2048 and others 4096....
> 
> Which is the maximum number of open FD can i set?

For 2.2 there are real per process limitations, for 2.4 it basically
depends how much RAM you have

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