"Austad, Jay" <austad at marketwatch.com> wrote: > > No workie. The limits get set. And if I change it so it ignores the > problem and compiles anyway, it crashes on when the 510th qmail-remote > starts. I know it's possible to do, there are some kernel patches to > get around this, but they were for kernel 2.2. I thought that maybe this > was something that was able to be set on the fly in 2.4, but I guess not. > Here's the output of a few commands: This probably isn't an answer that you'll like a whole lot, but Alan Cox has often integrated file descriptor hacks into his kernels. I'm not sure if that's still happening in 2.4, but he did it with 2.2 kernels quite a bit. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ "Thank You. Please Come / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ Again." -- Apu \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011019/15536975/attachment.pgp