RE: [cobalt-users] too many files open

["Joe" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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

Thanks for the response. 

We had found that file and were thinking about changing it but wanted to
make sure we didn't just fix the symptom while allowing the overall
problem to remain. Plus we were not sure if changing this value would
have any adverse effect.

Any thoughs?