Re: [cobalt-users] too many files open

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Joe wrote:

> 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.
>
/proc/sys/fs/file-max contains the max files. The default is 4096. Try
changing it to 8192, that should do the trick.

BTW on a RaQ550 /proc/sys/fs/file-max contains 8192...

Gerald
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