[Gllug] Increasing file descriptors

[Xander D Harkness]

John HEARNS wrote:

>On 12 Sep 2002, John Hearns wrote:
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>>On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 13:07, Martyn Drake wrote:
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>>>3) Echoed the following:-
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>>> 	echo  8192 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
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>>I was looking at file-max recently myself - I wrote a 
>>SUE(*) feature to increase it only last week.
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>>Actually, a cleaner way to do this is to edit
>>/etc/sysctl.conf
>>That's a nice place to set other system type things too.
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>>8192 is the default, no?
>>I would advise something bigger on a server machine
>>- maybe 32768
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>I should give the recipe for this - people listen in to
>the list to learn.
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>Edit the file /etc/sysctl.conf and add the line
>fs.file-max = 32786
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>/sbin/sysctl -a  tells you what else can be set
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>On a reboot, the script rc.sysinit should set the values,
>or you can do it immediately by /sbin/sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf
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Thanks John, easiest way to learn is from someone else's manual reading ;-)

There is also a gui for it (sysctlconfig-gtk)

I chucked a screen shot up just for people to have a nosey if they are 
interested.

http://openapps.harkness.co.uk/junk/sysctlconfig-gtk.png

Kind regards
Xander

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