File descriptors on Linux - max limit?

Hi,

Sorry if this seems stupid. I've run out of file descriptors and want to
increase them beyond 1024, perhaps 4096, under Linux 2.2.12, Red Hat 6.1.

I increased NR_OPEN and OPEN_MAX in /usr/include/linux/limits.h, and
set /proc/sys/fs/file-max as well. However, "configure" still sees 1024
FD's.

Anything I'm doing wrong? Thanks!

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