Increasing File Table Size in AIX 3.1 (RS/6000)

John P. Eisenmenger jpe at egr.duke.edu
Sat Apr 13 05:17:13 AEST 1991


>From article <1396 at cameron.egr.duke.edu>, by jpe at egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger):
> How can I increase the file table size on my RS/6000?  It looks like it's
> set to 328 no matter how many users my system is allowed to have logged
> in.  This is causing me serious troubles, so direct mail is desired.  I'll
> be calling IBM in the meantime...

Hmm... According to IBM what I was looking at wasn't what I thought it was --
it turns out to be a high-water mark of how many files were open at one time.
The kernel has a limit of about 2000 open files at a time...  My troubles lie
elsewhere -- though I still don't know where...

-John



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