X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: How can I increase ulimit -n or open files limit to 65535 on cygwin? Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:31:29 -0400 Message-ID: <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B65704169197@NIHCESMLBX5.nih.gov> In-Reply-To: From: "Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]" To: "Annie W." , X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id k9DKVjCq029262 Annie W. wrote: > can someone point me on how to increase open file limit? > Im stuck to 3200 on ulimit -n > I already went thru my cygwin files and downloaded cygwin source code. > I would appreciate the advice on how to change this limit? > > I have already increased open file limits on redhat and other linux > systems without any problems. > > Thank you > Annie I've no idea what sets ulimit's limits. But that won't stop me from suggesting some possibilities. :-) - ulimit is a bash builtin, so you might want to look at bash's code. If bash is the problem, you might run under ash or another shell, though not launched from bash. - One possibility is that Windows limits the numbers of open files. Have you looked into that? Good luck. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/