[cobalt-users] How do you increase allowed open files?

[John M Troher <admin@xxxxxxxx>]

The docs I find on redhats site are very clear.  They state that
/proc/sys/kernel/file-max contains the number of open files and if
you want to increase the do: "echo 4096 > /proc/sys/kernel/file-max" 
to increase the allowd open files to 4096.

One BIG problem I see!!!  file-max doesn't exist in the /proc/sys/kernel
folder and you can not create it because of the read only permissions on the
folder. And you can not change the permissions on the folder either.

So does anyone know how to increase the limit of files the kernel can
have open at one time?