hi all, this may be off topic, feel free to ignore. while trying to stop zope i encountered error stating max file limit met. what i did to stop this is running echo "8192" >/proc/sys/fs/file-max can i do this? good bad? any tips on tuning max file open, process open, etc? linux and zope newbie <--that's me. tia -- http://www.kedai.com.my/kk http://www.kedai.com.my/eZine Get the tables!