On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:52:15PM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > We looked into the problem you reported. I think I know what the problem > is. The maximum number of file handles per process is set too low on the > MPGC server. Each connection requires one or more file handles so the > maximum number of file handles is a hard limit for the maximum number of > concurrent connections. The log files show that the number of users has > almost doubled the last few weeks (that's great) the logfiles also shows > that the file handle problem kicks in when the number of users started > growing. This started on Sunday April 8. > > In order to fix this problem you have to set some settings on the server. > You use a Debian Linux distribution and I do not know 100% sure how to do it > on Debian Linux but on Redhat and SuSE Linux it can be done like this: > > As root edit the file _/etc/sysctl.conf_ and add the following two lines (or > change the existing entries to match them) > > fs.file-max = 10240 > > fs.inode-max = 40960
put: echo 10240 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max echo 40960 > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max in a bootup script, probably whatever starts your servers. > I'm afraid you need to reboot the server (the machine) to activate these > changes. > You probably don't, just find the bootup script that reads this file and find how to activate it. Mike
