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Someone keeps telling me that there is a limit to the number of files
that SCO can have open, at one time, and otherwise the system will
crash.  Any experience in this area?

Quote:Lee writes:
> Someone keeps telling me that there is a limit to the number of files
> that SCO can have open, at one time, and otherwise the system will
> crash.  Any experience in this area?

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SCO is a company.

SCO sells three or four major lines of Unix operating system software
(depending whether you count ODT 3-and-earlier and OpenServer 5 as one
or two lines).  Each operating system has different characteristics.
For instance, Xenix and ODT 3-and-earlier have a kernel parameter
controlling how many files can be open at once, system-wide.  OSR5
adjusts this dynamically, as (I believe) does UnixWare.

There are also per-process file limits.  The upper boundary for this
(the most files a single process may open) is 11000 on ODT3 and OSR5.
It's much smaller (less than 300) on older releases of ODT and Xenix.  I
don't know about UnixWare.  The limit can be adjusted on a per-process
basis, on OSR5 and UnixWare.

If the system-wide file limit is exceeded, you will get kernel warning
messages and processes will fail to open files.  If a process exceeds
its per-process limit it will also fail to open files.  The system will
not crash (though it's possible that important system processes will be
adversely affected).

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