ITEM: AC8058L

Question on v_file in /usr/include/sys/var.h

Question:

Env:    AIX 3.2.5, Model 530

Desc:   Customer would like to know about the v_file entry in the
        /usr/include/sys/var.h file.  He has looked at the value 
        for this entry using "pstat -T" and the value seems small.

Action: v_file is the current number of entires in the system wide 
        open file table (for all processes).  The value of v_file 
        will change depending on the number of files that are 
        currently open.  This number appears to be a multiple of
        128.  The open file table will be as small as possible and
        will grow dynamically when more file descriptors are needed.  
        The maximum size of the open file table and, consequently,
        the maximum number of files that can be opened, is 200,000.  
        This a nonconfigurable limit.  

        The customer then asked about the number of files that 
        can be opened by a single process.  This value, OPEN_MAX,
        is defined in /usr/include/sys/limits.h.  OPEN_MAX is the 
        maximum number of files that one process can have open at 
        one time and is hardcoded to a value of 2,000.



Support Line: Question on v_file in /usr/include/sys/var.h ITEM: AC8058L

Dated: October 1994 Category: N/A

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