On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Nitebirdz wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Well, now that I'm "reading my whole message" I just realized it could come
across as unpolite towards Vidiot. He's right though. I shouldn't have
talked about inodes, but rather about "file descriptors".
Sorry about that, Vidiot.
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