Re: ulimit -n to small

[Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.zsh-users@rawuncut.elitemail.org>]

Heinrich Goetzger, April 19:

> > > I need a value for file descriptors > 5000 for some java
> > > application.

> > No help at all, but, seriously, what application needs more than
> > five thousand files open at the same time?,

> This is the "Acrobat Viewer Bean" [1] it scans the files in
> /usr/share/fonts for some reason. I'm evaluating this application
> right now.

Shouldn't it close the files after it has finished scanning them?
Perhaps the Java GC isn't freeing stuff correctly?

> Just try: 'find /usr/share/fonts/ | wc -l' it gives me 4992 which can

Wow, 4992 files in your fonts directory?  That's quite a bunch,
        nikolai

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