lists-centos wrote:
> Is this a dedicated machine, or some type of virtual hosted
> environment?
>
> I got this error in a (centos 4.x) virtual hosted environment
> recently when I exceeded my allowed process count (I was well below
> my open files limit).
>
>
> - Richard
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>> Date: Thursday, August 19, 2010 01:44:47 PM -0400
>> From: Jerry Geis <geisj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: CentOS ML <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: too many open files
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Jerry
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seems like there is a global value (which I did above) and a process limit
ulimit -a tells all limits and ulimit -n 2048 seemed to work for me.
Although I had to kill hte process and restart it.
Thanks,
jerry
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