It was thus said that the Great Kerry Wilson once stated: > I am getting the following critical error throughout my log files: > > (24)Too many open files: /var/www/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to > check htaccess file, ensure it is readable > > /var/www/.htaccess does not exist > > I suspect the problem is caused b/c the server has reached the maximum > open files limit for some reason > > cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max yields 206302 > > This problem is occurring on one of our newer servers which only has > about 20 vhosts on it, our other server is working fine running 100+ > vhosts, despite less RAM and a file-max setting of 157284 and all the > sites are running on the same CMS system ( internally developed ). Has > anyone encountered this error before? Yes. You'll want to run "ulimit -a" and check the value for open files---you'll see this is less than the file-max value. What I've done is modify the startup script for apache (on my system, it's /etc/init.d/httpd) to add: ulimit -n 8192 just before starting the web server. This increases the allowed open files for the webserver from the default (1024)---and this will *only* apply to the webserver. -spc (Which solved the problem for me) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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