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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.
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.
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
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