[JDEV] max files/sockets

Justin Georgeson jgeorgeson at unboundtech.com
Fri Oct 25 12:41:34 CDT 2002


So the proc limits seem ok, by default, but I still seem to need to run 
ulimit, which seems to need root access to set values. I don't want to 
give root access on all the machines we're using to test, is there any 
other way?

Ralph Siemsen wrote:
> Justin Georgeson wrote:
> 
>> I'm running jabbertest, and am hitting the file/socket limit. I found 
>> this
>>
>> http://mailman.jabber.org/pipermail/jdev/2000-April/002067.html
>>
>> But the inode-max doesn't exist, and the echo ... > into it just tells 
>> me so, rather than creating it. :/
> 
> 
> Under 2.4 they are renamed... /proc/sys/fs/file-max and inode-max.  Note 
> that under RedHat and probably some other distros, these are already 
> increased from their "default" values.
> 
> For lots of good information on /proc entries see the kernel source 
> documentation: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> 
> -R
> 
> 
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