Claudio, I looked at my record just now. I have a Sun Ultra 5 running Solaris 2.7. When I increased the number of concurrent remote processes to 50, the log file shows "cannot open pipe" error for a lot of the processes. Is this caused by rlim_fd_max too small? Sincerely, Yuan > > Yuan, > > For change the current and max number of file descriptors in > Solaris 2.6 (in > 2.7 I think is the same but I'm not sure), you need add two > entries in your > /etc/system file: > > set rlim_fd_cur=1024 > set rlim_fd_max=2048 > > and you MUST reboot your machine in order to changes take effect. > > To see if everythings works, try to use the command ulimit -a > before and after > the modifications. Unfortanately the max number of file > descriptors wouldn't be > showed, just the current will (open files parameter). > > Hope this helps. > > Regards, > > Claudio
