On Oct 8, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Ben Held wrote:
> I have a need to run around 100 processes per node on a small Linux
> cluster running LAM 7.1 I can only seem to run about 40 – after
> that it just fails. Although I have not seen an error about too
> many file descriptors, I did increase this limit by a factor of 8
> and no luck.
>
> Does LAM have a built in limit? Can it be overridden?
>
Yes, there is a built-in limit. We have not experimented with making
it larger, and the only way to override it is to change some magic
defines I can't recall at this time. So overriding the limit is both
unsupported and not recommended.
Good luck,
Brian
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