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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Robert Watson wrote:

> - kern.maxfiles, the global maximum number of open file descriptors
>   permitted.
>
> - Resource limits, which are per-process, and can be viewed for the
>   current process using the "limits" command (or some variation depending
>   on shell).

Also kern.maxfilesperproc, which is the hard limit for the per-process
limits (which defaults to =kern.maxfiles).

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