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Re: Q: problem "maximum number of clients reached"
- To: Jerome Anten - SUN Microsystems - <Jerome dot Anten at holland dot sun dot com>
- Subject: Re: Q: problem "maximum number of clients reached"
- From: Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:51:10 +0200 (MEST)
- Cc: cygwin xfree mail list <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Jerome Anten - SUN Microsystems - wrote:
> Hi list,
> I'm new here, and encountered the same proplems described below,
> but, there is a much better way to overcome this problem:
>
> Don't recompile ! but update the max. file descriptors of you process.
> The _SC_OPEN_MAX if obtained from unix syscall "sysconf()" and will
> return the max open files possible in the current process context.
> Knowing this, we can easily increase this in the bash shell by typing:
>
> # ulimit -a (see all current limits)
> # ulimit -n 128 ( increase open files to 128 )
>
thanks, I've not know about this issue.
bye
ago
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