On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 00:52, Steve Buehler wrote: > I am getting a lot of messages about Too many open files in system. I am > running RHEL 3.x on a dual Xeon 2.4Ghz with 2Gig of ram. The only thing > really different from the average system is that we are running an Ensim > Control panel and this normally happens when we are doing backups. But we > have other systems like this and don't have this problem. Also, I know > that there are other people out there running this with more than the 185 > sites that we have on this server. Now I do agree that a couple of our > sites get more hits than a lot of the other servers that are out there with > this type of setup. But they are only averaging (each): > 25,000 hits per day > 25,000 files hit > 5,500 Pages > 720 visits > 10Gig of bandwidth a month. > > Below are the logwatch messages being sent to me. I also have a bunch of > PAM faulty modules too that I don't remember seeing before and am not sure > what to do about them either. > Expunge ignored on readonly mailbox: 5 Time(s) > PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_unix.so: 3 Time(s) > Mailbox is open by another process, access is readonly: 3 Time(s) > PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_unix.so): 3 Time(s) > Mailbox open failed, aborted: Too many open files in system: 3 Time(s) Have a look at ... /usr/src/linux-?????/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt looking at file-max and file-nr. You may wish to check what is going on at the time of the messages and then adjust your settings as needed. Regards, Ed -- "I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is." --The computer "Deep Thought" in "Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy" -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
