On Wednesday, Feb 11th 2009 at 13:14 -0000, quoth Sharpe, Sam J: =>2009/2/11 iarly selbir <iarlyy@xxxxxxxxx>: =>> can anyone tell me what mean this messages? =>> =>> Feb 11 14:08:02 ski0s kernel: VFS: file-max limit 204674 reached => =>You've probably hit the maximum number of open files. => =>[sjs298@cc-6910p ~]$ sysctl fs.file-max =>fs.file-max = 202566 => =>[sjs298@cc-6910p ~]$ sudo sysctl -w fs.file-max=1000000 =>fs.file-max = 1000000 => =>[sjs298@cc-6910p ~]$ sysctl fs.file-max =>fs.file-max = 1000000 => =>To make the changes permanent, you need to add a line to /etc/sysctl.conf: =>fs.file-max = <a number> => =>Shells also have a maximum number of open files which may need to be =>adjusted in /etc/security/limits.conf, but I don't think you are =>hitting that because the message wouldn't come from the kernel. Sorry, but I don't believe that is correct. VFS has no knowledge of the number of open files on the system. I think it's trying to tell you that you have run out of either the maximum number of files allowe3d in the filesystem or the maximum number of blocks allowed by a single file in the filesystem. I don't know what kind of filesystem you're running and I don't know why the complaint is coming from VFS so I can't really help you, other than to say that (for example) ext[23] allows you to specify the number of files/inodes/etc in a filesystem. I also don't remember if you can change any of it after the filesystem is populated. FYI, VFS == Virtual File System. It's the dohicky that allows things like open, close, read, write and ls(1) to all present you with a unified view of your filesystem, regardless of whether you're running ext2, ext3, reiser, jfs, xfs, or whatever flavor you have that day, or whatever combination of filesystems you're running. -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
