On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:52:10AM +0100, Yann Dupont wrote: > ydupont@Enya:/$ cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max > 16384 It is the system-wide limit (the sum of the number of files held open by _all_ running processes can be 16384). The per-process limit is hardcoded in /usr/src/linux/include/linux/limits.h: #define NR_OPEN 1024 Gabor -- Gabor Gombas Eotvos Lorand University E-mail: gombasg@inf.elte.hu Hungary