NAME
maxfiles_lim — hard limit for the number of files that a process is allowed to have open simultaneously
VALUES
Default
1024
Specify an integer value.
DESCRIPTION
maxfiles_lim
specifies the system default hard limit
for the number of open files a process may have.
It is possible for a nonsuperuser process to increase its soft limit,
maxfiles,
up to this hard limit.
maxfiles_lim
can be set by rebuilding the kernel, or can be
set in the running kernel with
settune().
The System Administration Manager
(sam)
and
kmtune
use
settune().
Dynamic changes affect all existing processes in the system except:
Processes that are already over the new limit;
Processes that have specifically set their limits through a call to
setrlimit()
or
ulimit().
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_lim
was developed by HP.
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