Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!ENGR!WITTMANN From: wittmann@ENGR.WISC.EDU (art wittmann) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell Subject: Re: Open Files Question Message-ID: <9001162213.AA01016@erb1.engr.wisc.edu> Date: 16 Jan 90 21:13:13 GMT Sender: Novell LAN Interest Group Reply-To: Novell LAN Interest Group Lines: 23 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL10] X-To: NOVELL%SUVM.BITNET@VM1.NoDak.EDU In-Reply-To: <9001161956.AA29514@erb1.engr.wisc.edu>; from "Joel Jackson" at Jan 16, 90 12:17 am > > >From: Pierre Cormier > >Subject: Number of Open Files > > >For some strange reason, people here want to open 60 files at a time > >from a DBase application. The code they produced works fine when the files > >are all on a local drive, but stops with an error after 40 files (give or > >take) when the files are on a Novell 2.15 server. > > >The maximum number of open files is 250 on the server. When this stuff runs, > >the actual number of open files gets up to approx. 100, so this is not the > >problem. > You may have to change the parameters shell.cfg when you run shgen. There are separate buffer parameters in that file. Art =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Art Wittmann Phone: (608) 263-1748 Network Manager Email: wittmann@engr.wisc.edu Computer Aided Engineering Center or: wittmann@cae.wisc.edu University of Wisconsin, Madison