Re: "Too many open files in system"

Subject: Re: "Too many open files in system"
From: Chuq Von Rospach (chuqui@plaidworks.com)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 11:08:04 MDT

At 11:41 AM -0400 9/1/00, Paul Schinder wrote:
>At 6:53 AM -0700 9/1/00, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>>got this message last night while the system was busy sending a
>>bunch of end-of-month email.
>>
>>Looks like the kernel file table is too small. How do I increase
>>the size of this under linux?
>
>Well, there's a /proc/sys/fs/file-max,

Thanks! I hadn't found that doc yet, and I couldn't find the info in
the stuff I'd looked through...

Stupid question: does this need to be changed on every reboot, or is
it fixed once I set it? (easy way to check: reboot the silly system.
I'll do that tonight...)

>
>So it depends on what caused your problem. If you hit the
>application's limit, it looks like you need to recompile the kernel.
>Otherwise, try raising file-max.

I don't believe it was an app limit -- I had a LOT of mail going on
at the time, and with everything else, I think I hit the system limit
(we'll see!). I have raised the issue with the developer of mailman,
in case a change he made to b5 is leaking fd's, though, just in case. 

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And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
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