[Gllug] Increasing file descriptors

[John Hearns]

On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 13:07, Martyn Drake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to increase the number of file descriptors under the 2.4.18
> kernel (compiled with XFS 1.1 patches).  Following all the usual
> conventions of:-
> 
> 1) Editing /etc/security/limits.conf and adding:-
> 
> *	soft	nofile	1024
> *	hard	nofile	4096
> 
> 2) Added the following to /etc/pam.d/login:-
> 
> 	session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so
> 
> 3) Echoed the following:-
> 
>  	echo  8192 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
> 
I was looking at file-max recently myself - I wrote a 
SUE(*) feature to increase it only last week.

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.

8192 is the default, no?
I would advise something bigger on a server machine
- maybe 32768





(*) SUE - Standard Unix Environment. Our way
of setting up and checking system configurations.
You don't need to know much more than that.



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