Re: Too Many Open Files On System

2004-09-03 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:21:35AM -0400, Mike Ward wrote: > Interesting. I just looked, it shows I have ~40 free open files left, > so maybe that's it. They are dynamically allocated. On my system: ~ %% cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr 913 82 4096 ~ %% 913 open file structures all but 82 in

Re: Too Many Open Files On System

2004-09-03 Thread Mike Ward
Interesting. I just looked, it shows I have ~40 free open files left, so maybe that's it. What sort of side effects might arise from allowing 4x the number of open files, if any? On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 08:14:01 -0700, Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:57:04AM -040

Re: Too Many Open Files On System

2004-09-03 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:57:04AM -0400, Mike Ward wrote: > Well, it obviously varies, but I just ran "lsof | wc -l" and it returned: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsof | wc -l > 6335 > > I'll try running that next time I run into problems as well. > > > Kernel version is 2.2.20-idepci Won't lsof

Re: Too Many Open Files On System

2004-09-03 Thread Mike Ward
Well, it obviously varies, but I just ran "lsof | wc -l" and it returned: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsof | wc -l 6335 I'll try running that next time I run into problems as well. Kernel version is 2.2.20-idepci > What kernel version are you using and what is the output of: > > lsof | wc -l > >

Re: Too Many Open Files On System

2004-09-02 Thread Mike
Mike Ward wrote: I've written down a few of the libraries that programs don't seem to be able to load randomly, although I'd expect that the libraries aren't significant in this case, they just happen to be trying to load them at the same time that there's "too many open files". But, just in case,

Re: Too Many Open Files On System

2004-09-02 Thread Mike Ward
I've written down a few of the libraries that programs don't seem to be able to load randomly, although I'd expect that the libraries aren't significant in this case, they just happen to be trying to load them at the same time that there's "too many open files". But, just in case, these are the one

Re: Too Many Open Files On System

2004-08-28 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 10:00:35PM -0500, Ken Januski wrote: > Mike Ward wrote: > > >Firstly, I apologize for having no real details on this. > > > >I'm running Debian Unstable, and seemingly randomly, I'll go to run a > >program or save a file or what not, and I'll get an error to the > >effect o

Re: Too Many Open Files On System

2004-08-28 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 10:00:35PM -0500, Ken Januski wrote: > I don't have an answer just a similar experience. But I did discover > that it was over 100 nmbd samba files, discovered through use of ps, > that gave me the clue. > > >Firstly, I apologize for having no real details on this. > > >

Re: Too Many Open Files On System

2004-08-28 Thread Ken Januski
I don't have an answer just a similar experience. But I did discover that it was over 100 nmbd samba files, discovered through use of ps, that gave me the clue. I never did discover what spawned all the nmbd processes. But they were the source of the too many open files errors I believe. On the