On 06/07/2018 08:01 AM, Leonid Isaev via arch-general wrote: > [long email, so top-posting] > > MaxSessions and MaxStartups in /etc/ssh/sshd_config? > > Cheers, > L. > You are brilliant, it ended up being MaxStartups, added 20 to the default, e.g. #MaxStartups 10:30:100 MaxStartups 30:50:100 And all files opened just fine. I tried increasing MaxSessions first -- no help. Ralph, thanks, I too have: # override default of no subsystems Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server It looks like MaxStartups was the setting at issue. I'm glad it is there (I haven't had any huge kate project since 2012/13) It just caught me a bit by surprise when I opened an old web-site project with 34 files in it. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.