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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Jason Lixfeld <jlixfeld@idirect.com>
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Subject: Re: Increasing max open files per process @ system level
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On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Jason Lixfeld wrote:

> That's what I thought!  Thanks!  I'm running this on a PentiumII 233
> w/256MB RAM..  I set OPEN_MAX and CHILD_MAX to 128.  Is this sufficient,
> or can/should I go higher?!

Should be fine, for sendmail.  webservers need more.

Danny