Thanks, This solved my problems. - Jeroen On Tuesday 03 August 2004 09:09 am, Rainer Traut wrote: > Hi, > > J.L. Coenders wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I have a program which tells me it needs more open files than the system > > can handle. > > When I do nlimit -n, it tells me I have 1024 files max. How do you > > increase this number, permanently? I found some stuff about > > changing /etc/security/limits.conf and /etc/pam.d/gdm and some others, > > but that doesn't really work. It's probably some simple trick and I > > remember something alike before, but I cannot remember how it was done. > > I use FC2 with KDE. > > /etc/security/limits.conf is the right place: > [root@asp5 root]# cat /etc/security/limits.conf |grep nofile > # - nofile - max number of open files > notes soft nofile 90000 > notes hard nofile 90000 > [root@asp5 root]# su - notes > [notes@asp5 notes]$ ulimit -a|grep files > open files (-n) 90000 > > Rainer
