From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 10:06:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 10:06:02 -0400 Received: from lsmls02.we.mediaone.net ([24.130.1.15]:5117 "EHLO lsmls02.we.mediaone.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 10:05:53 -0400 Message-ID: <3AF7FDE8.9C124AA9@kegel.com> Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 07:08:40 -0700 From: Dan Kegel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: fedelman@elsitio.com.ar, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: fs.file-max Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Federico Edelman Anaya (fedelman@elsitio.com.ar) wrote: > What can I do to test the FD limit? ... Because, the FD limit is set in > /proc/sys/fs/file-max, sample: > > echo "2048" > /proc/sys/fs/file-max That sets the systemwide limit to 2048. > ulimit -n 8192 That sets the per-process limit (for this process and its children) to 2048. > In this case ... the FD limit = 8192 :( ... when the limit should be > 2048? No, the two limits are independant (except, obviously, that that process will reach the systemwide fd limit before it exhausts its per-process fd limit). > I wrote a perl script for the test ... anybody known a "C" program for > test the FD limit? http://www.kegel.com/dkftpbench/#tuning - Dan