On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 13:44 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
> I am getting an error about to many open files.
> I tried to "echo 500000 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max"
> The number is there now, but I continue to get the error.
>
> Is there something else to do?
----For EL 5? You don't say?
# /etc/security/limits.conf
# Open File Descriptors
* - nofile 8192
---
Just how many do you have open?
http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
There is also a per user basis also.
John
My advise is to stay way from setting it via /proc. You could still be
getting the warning because the system has not read proc very busy
machines I have seen this.
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