[Techtalk] Too many files open
Conor Daly
conor.daly at oceanfree.net
Sun Nov 2 11:57:57 EST 2003
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 04:02:37PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Gina Lanik thought:
>
> To be honest I'd rather investigate what causes the behavior. We had a
> simliar thing on a server running Oracle, Roxen and a bunch of other stuff
> and the first two didn't interact nicely which drove file-max over the
> limit.
>
> If you see everything's OK I'd gradually try to increase file-max and keep
> on monitoring until you've found a value which works for you.
Only saw this today...
I'd try some monitoring only this network is about 1500miles away and not
connected.
Another list I posted to on the subject came up with a suggestion of 1024
files per login. Users have KDE as their default desktop which I'm told
is hungry enough with the files.
Conor
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