maxfiles(5)

NAME

maxfiles — sets the soft limit for the number of files a process is allowed to have open simultaneously

VALUES

Minimum

30

Maximum

60000

Default

60

Specify an integer value.

DESCRIPTION

maxfiles number of files a process is allowed to have open at any given time. It is possible for a process to increase its soft limit and therefore open more than maxfiles files.

Nonsuperuser processes can increase their soft limit until they reach the hard limit, maxfiles_lim.

Related Parameters

To be useful, the value assigned to maxfiles must be less than the value of maxfiles_lim. maxfiles_lim is useful only if it does not exceed the limits imposed by nfile and ninode.

WARNINGS

All HP-UX kernel tunable parameters are release specific. This parameter may be removed or have its meaning changed in future releases of HP-UX.

AUTHOR

maxfile was developed by HP.