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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: dirk@servtech.com
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Subject: Re: Maximum file descriptors per process
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On Tue, 20 Aug 1996 dirk@servtech.com wrote:

> 
>         Does anyone know how I might go about raising the maximum # of file
> descriptors per process in FreeBSD?  
> 
> Ver: 2.1.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0

  This belongs on the freebsd-questions list (it is question after all).

  The easy way to do this, is the "limit openfiles XX" command.  "limit"
is an internal csh (and bash?) command.

Tom