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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt index aa986a35e99..f99254327ae 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/fs: - inode-max - inode-nr - inode-state +- nr_open - overflowuid - overflowgid - suid_dumpable @@ -91,6 +92,15 @@ usage of file handles and you don't need to increase the maximum. ============================================================== +nr_open: + +This denotes the maximum number of file-handles a process can +allocate. Default value is 1024*1024 (1048576) which should be +enough for most machines. Actual limit depends on RLIMIT_NOFILE +resource limit. + +============================================================== + inode-max, inode-nr & inode-state: As with file handles, the kernel allocates the inode structures |