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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: How do I raise max number of open files?
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> 
> Hello!
> 
> Question in subject. This is max global, not max per process. Please cc me.
> 
> Thanks for your time!

e.g.
blues # sysctl -a | grep maxfiles
kern.maxfiles: 1064
kern.maxfilesperproc: 1064
blues # sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=1536
kern.maxfiles: 1064 -> 1536

> 
> Peter Olsson    pol@leissner.se
> 
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de