If I recall, one is total for the system, and the other is total for a process.

On 5/31/07, Kevin <dedke01 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> In Solaris 10 we have the following two kernel parameters:
> rlim_fd_max  - which has a default value of 65536
> rlim_fd_cur - which has a default value of 256
>
> However to see what these values are, you run the following command:
>
> kstat -n file_cache
>
> and look at the buf_total or buf_max - but they don't match the 65536 number.
>
> On my system I have rlim_fd_cur set to 576 and the max at the default, which 
> I confirmed with a 'sysdef' but when I run a kstat -n it comes back as 1740.
>
> Can anyone explain the difference?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin D.
>
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