I forgot to mention: when my Linux box ran out of fd's, LOTS of
mailboxes got corrupted db files and such. Very messy. In the end, I
ran 'at 2am' and had it do a reconstruct -r user. For a while there,
reconstruct was my friend. Thankfully, I haven't needed to run it in a
while.
regards,
David
Paul Wiechman wrote:
>
> edited it in /proc/sys/fs/file-max
>
> Went to the extreme to try to get it to work.
>
> Paul
>
> Daryl Tester wrote:
> >
> > Paul Wiechman wrote:
> >
> > > That didn't work. Gave Linux 65535 FD's and quota still gives 'quota:
> > > System I/O error Too many open files'.
> >
> > _Where_ (and how) did you give Linux that many file descriptors?
> > There is a system wide limit defined (in fs.file-max and
> > fs.inode-max in sysctl naming convention, from memory), and a
> > per-process limit defined by ulimit. And I believe with the
> > system wide limit, fs.inode-max >= 3 * fs.file-max.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Daryl Tester, Software Wrangler and Bit Herder, IOCANE Pty. Ltd.
> >
> > "Who knows what men lurk in the heart of eval?"
--
David L. Parsley
Network Administrator
Roanoke College
