The core part of an operating system.
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How to properly increase ulimit -n on Lion?
I'm trying to download the X-Plane 10 Demo through uTorrent, however I get a "too many open files" error all the time. I can do the alternate download (which takes forever and a day), but I wonder how ...
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My mac has 64-bit EFI, but it only boots with 32-bit kernel
I followed the guide at
http://macperformanceguide.com/SnowLeopard-64bit.html
to boot into 64-bit mode. I had no problems with the instructions and on the boot screen it says "PAE enabled, 64bit mode ...
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Too Many Open Files
Which command / configuration file controls the open file limits on OS X? Is there a different command for OS X 10.5 / 10.6 / 10.7? The options I explore below are ulimit, sysctl, and launchctl
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File location of kernel extensions?
Is there an easy way to make the mapping from kernel extension to the file it came from?
I can get the list of currently loaded kernel extension via kextstat. This gives me the bundle names, like ...
