sysctl.conf

[Allen, Jack]

Is there a document that describes all the parameters and there values
that can be put in the sysctl.conf file. The man page says see
/proc/sys, but you still have to figure out what valid values would be
for each. And some I have no idea what they really control. I am moving
an Application from UNIX to Linux and had kernel parameter requirements
that had to be set in UNIX for the application to run correctly. Things
like:

NPROC                   Maximum number of processes the system can have
at once. 
MAXUPROC                Maximum number of processes that a non-super
user can have at once. 
MAXFILES                Default number of file descriptors a process is
allowed to have at once. 
NFILES                  The maximum number of open files for the entire
system. 

I know some of these may not even exist in Linux as a tunable parameter
or have a higher value than the application requires, but it would be
nice to know what they are also.

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