1 <samba:parameter name="max open files"
4 advanced="1" developer="1"
5 xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
7 <para>This parameter limits the maximum number of
8 open files that one <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
9 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> file
10 serving process may have open for a client at any one time. The
11 This parameter can be set very high (16404) as Samba uses
12 only one bit per unopened file. Setting this parameter lower than
13 16404 will cause Samba to complain and set this value back to
14 the minimum of 16404, as Windows 7 depends on this number of
15 open file handles being available.</para>
17 <para>The limit of the number of open files is usually set
18 by the UNIX per-process file descriptor limit rather than
19 this parameter so you should never need to touch this parameter.</para>
22 <value type="default">16404</value>