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To: dirk@servtech.com
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD file descriptor limit 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Aug 1996 22:23:24 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 19:47:36 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 
>         I know this may not be the correct place to be sending this, but if

It's not, you should use questions@freebsd.org - this list is only for
reporting bugs.  Please see http://www.freebsd.org for more
information on which mailing lists are appropriate for which topics.

As to the process open file limit, it depends on your shell, but bash
allows you to set it easily with the `ulimit' command:

jkh@time-> ulimit -a 
core file size (blocks)  unlimited
data seg size (kbytes)   65536
file size (blocks)       unlimited
max memory size (kbytes) 93612
stack size (kbytes)      8192
cpu time (seconds)       unlimited
max user processes       339
pipe size (512 bytes)    1
open files               64
virtual memory (kbytes)  73728
jkh@time-> ulimit -n 100
jkh@time-> ulimit -a
core file size (blocks)  unlimited
data seg size (kbytes)   65536
file size (blocks)       unlimited
max memory size (kbytes) 93612
stack size (kbytes)      8192
cpu time (seconds)       unlimited
max user processes       339
pipe size (512 bytes)    1
open files               100
virtual memory (kbytes)  73728

					Jordan


> this cannot be answered here I would be eternally grateful if you could
> point me to where I could get this question answered.  
> 
> We're currently running: 2.1.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 26
> 20:40:6
> 
>         I was wondering how I would go about raising the maximum number of
> file descriptors per process?  
> 
>                                 
>                                             Derrick
>                                       (dirk@servtech.com)
>