Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: richard@torch.UUCP (Richard Nuttall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: extending the max number of open files. Keywords: SunOS Message-ID: <619@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 28 Jul 89 09:04:55 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 21 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 89, message 3 of 14 meulenbr@cstw01.prl.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks) writes: >Can someone tell me how I can extend the max. number of open files? I've >obtained a program which opens a lot of files, and I would prefer not to >modify the program. One of the benefits of SunOS4.0 is that you can have more open files than the usual 20. Looking in /sys/sys/param.h on my Sun386 gives NOFILE (max number of open files per process) to be 64. If this still isn't enough, you could try changing this value and rebuilding the kernel, though I take no responsibility for anything that might happen as a result. <#include "std_disclaimer.h"> Richard Nuttall | ukc!stc!datlog!torch!richard Torch Technology Ltd. | richard@torch.co.uk Cambridge England | 0223 841000 X 308