nofiles descriptor limit



I have a user that has nofiles=2000. The application fails with too many open
files error. If I set nofiles = -1, it succeeds.
Monitoring the process using lsof, I see its maximum number of files (including
FIFO, VREG, TCP, etc) is only 252.

Any ideas of why this works this way?

Mark Hunter
Anheuser-Busch Cos.
MIS Consultant, ES&SO Server Planning and Integration
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