We recently set up a Samba server on Debian potato. After a little uptime (about 30 minutes to an hour) we saw an error message that said:
VFS: file-max limit 4096 reached I did some searching on the net, and found what might be a solution. I added a simple .sh script to the startup that increased the file-max and inode-max via the following: echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max echo 65536 > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max That seemed to help a little. Now we are getting errors that say something like 'no fork() resources available' or something like that. Upon boot, I see this message: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. even though I'm able to write to the root filesystem. I don't know what other clues I can leave. Thanks for any help on this. I'm not sure if it is a Samba issue or a kernel issue or a filesystem issue. All the server is running is ssh, apache, samba, and the other basic services (cron, inetd, etc). Thanks.
