[SunHELP] How to allow Samba-2.0.7 on Solaris open more than 1014 files

[Dale Ghent]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Li John-a16118 wrote:

| Hi all,
| 
| I heard that there is a patch which can allow Samba-2.0.7 on Solaris
| open more than 1014 files. But I don't know how to do it in detail.
| Anyone can point me on this ?

Put the following in /etc/system and reboot:

* Increase system file descriptor limits
set rlim_fd_cur = 256
set rlim_fd_max = 4096

This sets the file descriptor soft limit to 256 (which is the OS default
anyway) and the hard limit to 4094 (up from the default of 1024).

/dale