On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Vidiot wrote:
> >On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Wahid Belhaouane wrote:
> >
> >> Hello every body
> >> i was in version 6.2 , but when i installed 7.0
> >> sometimes i have a problem of "to many files open"
> >> and so , nobody can use the system.
> >> can someone tell me what to do , to correct this.
> >> Thanks a lot
> >> Wahid.
> >>
> >
> >It seems to me that you're running out of inodes. If you're running the
> >2.2.x kernel (which you should if you're running Red Hat 6.2), you can
> >change those parameters dynamically.
>
> That isn't caused by inodes. Inodes determine the number of files you
> can have in a partition, not the number of files that can be open.
>
If you read my whole message, you may have noticed those two lines I
included with the parameters that he could change in the proc filesystem:
echo 32768 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
^^^^
...or...
echo 65536 > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max
Granted I didn't explain myself very well in the first paragraph, but the
instructions on the commands that he can enter are pretty clear. By the
way, I did come across this problem on a system I was using as a X Window
server and it worked flawlessly.
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