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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt index aa986a35e994..f99254327ae5 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt | |||
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/fs: | |||
23 | - inode-max | 23 | - inode-max |
24 | - inode-nr | 24 | - inode-nr |
25 | - inode-state | 25 | - inode-state |
26 | - nr_open | ||
26 | - overflowuid | 27 | - overflowuid |
27 | - overflowgid | 28 | - overflowgid |
28 | - suid_dumpable | 29 | - suid_dumpable |
@@ -91,6 +92,15 @@ usage of file handles and you don't need to increase the maximum. | |||
91 | 92 | ||
92 | ============================================================== | 93 | ============================================================== |
93 | 94 | ||
95 | nr_open: | ||
96 | |||
97 | This denotes the maximum number of file-handles a process can | ||
98 | allocate. Default value is 1024*1024 (1048576) which should be | ||
99 | enough for most machines. Actual limit depends on RLIMIT_NOFILE | ||
100 | resource limit. | ||
101 | |||
102 | ============================================================== | ||
103 | |||
94 | inode-max, inode-nr & inode-state: | 104 | inode-max, inode-nr & inode-state: |
95 | 105 | ||
96 | As with file handles, the kernel allocates the inode structures | 106 | As with file handles, the kernel allocates the inode structures |