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RE: How can I increase ulimit -n or open files limit to 65535 on cygwin?
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: "Annie W." <werty____ at hotmail dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:31:29 -0400
- Subject: RE: How can I increase ulimit -n or open files limit to 65535 on cygwin?
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.
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