Austad, Jay (austad at marketwatch.com) said: > Why are the file descriptor limits still so low? I understand that for most > things it's fine, but when building a super high performance mail server, > this just isn't enough. Can this setting be changed on the fly yet like in > Slowlaris? > Look at <kernel src dir>/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt for info on dynamically changing fd limits. or just do: echo [new fd limit] > /proc/sys/fs/file-max Rob