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Old 09-07-2004, 11:47 PM   #1
Geoffrey_Firmin
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Increasing File Descriptors


Can someone please point me to documentation on the proper way to increase
the number of file descriptors under slackware. All the information I've
been able to come up with refers to changing the limits.conf file, but
there is no such file in slackware. Some sources are saying you have to do
some pretty involved kernel hacking to get an increase, others say no,
that after the 2.4 series you just need to change configuration files.

I'm using Slack 10, kernel 2.6.6

- TIA
 
Old 09-15-2004, 12:17 AM   #2
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The answer, for any poor souls that find themselves in a similar situation is:

/sbin/initscript

See the man page for how to set up this file to increase the available file descriptors/handlers.

It took me 6 days to find that out. Once I found out how to do it the actual change took about a minute.
 
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Old 09-15-2004, 01:19 AM   #3
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A ulimit -f XXXX thrown into e.g. /etc/profile should
do the same thing :} ... pity I never saw the original
post...


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Old 09-15-2004, 03:28 AM   #4
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It should be ulimit -Hn xxx as I see it in man initscript. Refering to man bash /ulimit, it says that ulimit -f is for increase the maximum size for a file created by the shell.

I still don't know what really is the point to increase file descriptors/handlers limit... Is it the number of opened files at the same time ? If so, the default (1024) is enough for my part.

Last edited by Cedrik; 09-15-2004 at 03:31 AM.
 
Old 04-19-2008, 08:50 AM   #5
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thankyou

wow that has been doing my head in for ages I was trying to get higher memlock for users so I just changed the -c to -l and added unlimited wow what a diference thanks for the post urbanmusic
 
Old 04-21-2008, 09:48 AM   #6
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Geoffrey_Firmin View Post
The answer, for any poor souls that find themselves in a similar situation is:

/sbin/initscript

See the man page for how to set up this file to increase the available file descriptors/handlers.

It took me 6 days to find that out. Once I found out how to do it the actual change took about a minute.
This is documented at http://slackwiki.org/Resource_Limits
 
  


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