Thanks Glynn. Well according to these values I'm only using about 1500 file descriptors out of the 560178. On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Bryan Christ wrote: > >> I pretty sure you can just echo to /proc/sys/fs/file-nr to set that >> value (which already seems really high at 560178). I doubt I'm >> exhausting 560178 descriptors. > > file-nr is read-only, and reports the number of open descriptors, the > number of free descriptors, and the limit. > > file-max is writable, and controls the system-wide limit. > > -- > Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > -- Bryan <>< -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html