SUMMARY: Re: ulimit file descriptors

From: Jeff Newton (Jeff_Newton@pmc-sierra.com)
Date: Wed Apr 29 1998 - 10:48:36 CDT


> >On a solaris 2.5.1 host I've issued ulimit -n 1024 in a sh shell.
The
> >number of descriptors has risen to 1024, but my perl5 script seems
> >only able to open 253 files before running out. Is there something
> >I'm missing here?

Thanks to all that responded. Looks like PERL is the problem here.
fopen() is limited to 256 files but supposedly a different stdio
package can be compiled to get around this.

Cheers,

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Jeff Newton
Unix Systems Administrator
PMC-Sierra Inc.



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