[comp.unix.questions] How can I change size of per process file table?

max@spam.uchicago.edu (06/12/90)

I have an application in mind for which I want about 100 files open at the same
time.  With the kernel I'm running on my SparcStation, the limit seems to be 64
(I wrote a program that just kept opening more and more until it got an error
from open()).  My impression is that the only way to change this is by
reconfiguring the kernel.  I tried to change MAXUSERS, but this didn't work.

Is this change a bad idea?  Why?  I have a fair amount of memory on my machine
(16 Meg) -- it seems to me that 64 files is a little small.

Please respond to me by mail -- I'll summarize responses to the group.

Thanks,

Donald Ziff               Center for Information and Language Studies
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