<samba:parameter name="max open files" context="G" advanced="1" developer="1" xmlns:samba="http://samba.org/common"> <listitem> <para>This parameter limits the maximum number of open files that one <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle> <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> file serving process may have open for a client at any one time. The default for this parameter is set very high (10,000) as Samba uses only one bit per unopened file.</para> <para>The limit of the number of open files is usually set by the UNIX per-process file descriptor limit rather than this parameter so you should never need to touch this parameter.</para> <para>Default: <command moreinfo="none">max open files = 10000</command></para> </listitem> </samba:parameter>