[KLUG Members] system problems on first day of live

[Dirk H Bartley]

adam@morrison-ind.com wrote:
> 
> Quoting Dirk H Bartley <dbartley@schupan.com>:
> 
> > How do I change the settings for the number of files that can be opened at
> > one time?  Not
> > sure if the problem is total or per user.
> 
> Ah!  You skipped my Performance Tuning presentation... tsk tsk tsk
> 
> For the system
> 
> /sbin/sysctl -w fs.file-max=32767
> 
> **AND**
> 
> edit /etc/sysctl.conf so the setting sticks if you should ever have to reboot.
> 
> For an individual user "man ulimit".  But it is probably the system wide value,
>  this starts at 8192,  way too low to do any real work.

Thank You!!!

You are a godsend.


Dirk