I am latching on the tail end of this thread. I ran the command on my IMAP server with 200 users logged in.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-nr 210202 35354 a few secs later [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-nr 210229 35354 I guess I l have a ulimit set to low here ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited file size (blocks, -f) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 7168 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited -- -\ - /- --([0]-[0])-- +--------oOOo-(_)-oOOo--------------------------+ | Theodore Knab | | Annapolis Linux LUG when not a sysadmin | +-----------------------------------------------+ |You are my wife, so you are under contractually| |obligated to like me. ---Homer Simpson | | oOOo | | ( ) oOOo | +--------\ (----( )--------------------------+ \_) ) / (-/