[cobalt-users] too many files open

["Joe" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Today we received an error that corrected itself. The bottom line when
researching the error was that it was related to the fact that the Raq
4i was configured to allow a maximum of 4096 files to be open at one
time. Apparently we went over that limit. 

This basically crashed out POP and SMTP servers. I was unable to telnet
in to the server and caused problems with the Cobalt UI. While this was
going on the web server worked fine and eventually the error cleared and
the server went back to normal operation.

My question is this, has anyone else encountered this problem, is there
a way to monitor the number of files that are open at any given time and
is there any down side to increasing the number of file that can be open
at one time.

If anyone has a clue, pease let me know.

Thanks,

Joe