From: cgf@cygnus.com (Christopher G. Faylor) Subject: Re: "Too many open files", any way to achieve ulimit -n? 10 Jun 1998 18:09:35 GMT Message-ID: <6lmi4v$mp7$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> References: <13693.53758.616000.258854.cygnus.gnu-win32@GUMBLE> X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test63 (15 March 1998) In article <13693.53758.616000.258854.cygnus.gnu-win32@GUMBLE>, Paul English wrote: >I have an issue with some perl scripts, and occassionally some links, >which terminate with a "Too many open files" message when running >under bash (bash 2.01.1(2) on Cygwin32 19.1 under Windows NT 4.0 SP3). >This only happens on a filesystem which is exported by Samba from a >Solaris server. > >Our MIS department have suggested increasing the maximum number of >file descriptors which can be open, i.e. ulimit -n 256. Unfortunately >ulimit -n seems to be fixed at 32. Is there any way of increasing >this limit? I'd even consider building bash from source if >necessary. Cygwin32 b19 does not have a fixed limit for opened files. Are you using a cygwin version of perl? If not, perhaps that is the problem. -- cgf@cygnus.com "Everything has a boolean value, if you stand http://www.cygnus.com/ far enough away from it." -- Galena Alyson Canada