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

Re: Too many open files

2002-10-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:16:32AM +0200, Fred wrote: > Hi, > > before changing anything, i want to know what's wrong. > Unmounting my ntfs partitions has no effects (just a try to see). > I'm going to read linux/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt and about > mke2fs ; if you know any means to diagnose t

Re: Too many open files

2002-10-08 Thread Fred
Hi, before changing anything, i want to know what's wrong. Unmounting my ntfs partitions has no effects (just a try to see). I'm going to read linux/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt and about mke2fs ; if you know any means to diagnose the pb, let me know. BTW : what are "FDs" ? merci Fred msg0595

Re: Too many open files

2002-10-07 Thread Alan D. Salewski
--T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:17:26PM +0200, Fred spake thus: > Hi, >=20 > It 's the third time my debian is complaining, just > after booting, with a "too many open

Re: Too many open files

2002-10-07 Thread Russell
Fred wrote: > > Hi, > > It 's the third time my debian is complaining, just > after booting, with a "too many open files", creating > each time many files in my home directory I log to. > Searching in Google, some files in /proc/sys/fs enable > to change this behaviour. > > -Why do I have this

Re: Too many open files

2002-10-07 Thread Gottfried Szing
Am Mon, 2002-10-07 um 22.33 schrieb Michael Heironimus: > On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:17:26PM +0200, Fred wrote: > > -How do I solve this ? Echoing a different max number ? > > is it a definitive solution (how about the next boot) ? > > I'm not sure why you have so many files open, but yes, you ca

Re: Too many open files

2002-10-07 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:17:26PM +0200, Fred wrote: > -How do I solve this ? Echoing a different max number ? > is it a definitive solution (how about the next boot) ? I'm not sure why you have so many files open, but yes, you can change the limit at runtime by echoing a new number to the file

Re: too many open files

1999-01-13 Thread Joe Emenaker
>i've recently reinstalled my debian system and i am now >getting the following error message: > >Jan 12 09:00:15 random amd[1162]: setmntent("/etc/mtab", "r+"): Too many >open files > >any ideas, or pointers to the fm are welcomed. The kernel's out of file handles. Go to /proc/sys/kernel and lo

Re: "Too many open files": ulimits

1997-07-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Take a look at /etc/lshell.conf Oh, that's it, thanks! Now one question... I have fortunes installed and fortunes-mod. With this setup if one types "fortune" it will try to open 74 files! (The fortunes and the .dat files plus stdio et al) I know this

Re: "Too many open files": ulimits

1997-07-02 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 1 Jul, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On 29 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > >> Your `ulimit's are too low. Here's what I do, in "/etc/profile" for >> now. > > > PS: BTW, I cann't change this limit as a normal user anyway. I can change > it as root but for root only. > Take a look at /e

Re: "Too many open files": ulimits

1997-07-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On 29 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Your `ulimit's are too low. Here's what I do, in "/etc/profile" for > now. This exactly the problem I'm having. The ulimit is set to 24. But I cann't find where to set this... (I know "ulimit -n 256") What I don't get is why on another debian machine t

Re: "Too many open files": ulimits

1997-06-29 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Marcelo" == Marcelo E Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marcelo> Hi, I'm getting this message very often in one of the Marcelo> Debian Linux machines I work with, and I have no clue of Marcelo> where to start looking. It's not coming from the kernel Marcelo> since it's no

Re: "Too many open files"

1997-06-28 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Marcelo" == Marcelo E Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marcelo> Hi, I'm getting this message very often in one of the Marcelo> Debian Linux machines I work with, and I have no clue of Marcelo> where to start looking. It's not coming from the kernel Marcelo> since it's no

Re: too many open files?

1996-11-11 Thread D. Chiodo
el <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: too many open files? > > Thanks for the help!!! > > So now I'm puzzled! :( > > here are my values: > irvine:/$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/file-nr > 192 > irvine:/$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/inode-nr > 16801502 > irvine

Re: too many open files?

1996-11-11 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Thanks!!! I did su to root! That must be the reason! I'll give it a try! Ricardo On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Ricardo Kleemann wrote: > : > : Hi guys, > : > : I tried running apache and got back the "too many open files" error. > : > : How can I check/monitor the number

Re: too many open files?

1996-11-11 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Thanks for the help!!! So now I'm puzzled! :( here are my values: irvine:/$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/file-nr 192 irvine:/$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/inode-nr 16801502 irvine:/$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/file-max 1024 irvine:/$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/inode-max 3072 I'm only running about 15 virtual WWW domai

Re: too many open files?

1996-11-11 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Ricardo Kleemann wrote: : : Hi guys, : : I tried running apache and got back the "too many open files" error. : : How can I check/monitor the number of file descriptors being used?? : : Where do I change it if it needs to be increased? Installed lshell? Became root via su? Heiko -- email

Re: too many open files?

1996-11-11 Thread Oskar Pearson
Hi > I tried running apache and got back the "too many open files" error. There are generally two possible errors: You can have too many files open on your system (say you have lots of programs that are opening a few files each) or a single process (like apache) can open 256 files (this is the de

Re: too many open files?

1996-11-09 Thread Rob Browning
Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I check/monitor the number of file descriptors being used?? This I know. Install the lsof package, and use lsof (ls open files). It will give a listing of all the open files and who's using them. This program gets installed in /usr/sbin, an