Re: CVS puzzle

[David Bobroff]

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 11:26 -0800, Graham Percival wrote:
> On 13-Dec-05, at 1:25 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> 
> > David Bobroff
> >> After getting this doing 'make all' would exit with a few lines of
> >> output mentioning something about 'too many files open'.  I would have
> >
> > strange. I have never seen this. Maybe you have zombie processes which 
> > hold open files?
> 
> What does
> $ ulimit -n
> say?  I changed mine to 4096 to avoid some problems.

# ulimit -n
1024

So, I guess yours is set to four times the value mine is.  Do I do:

set ulimit -n = 4096

(I'm not anywhere up to speed on system nuts and bolts.  I can do a few
things...but I have huge gaps in my knowledge)

-David