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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 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. >=20 > -Why do I have this message ? : just after logging, I'm > surprised there are so many open files ( file-max reports > 8192 ) : apache, ftp server, exim, fetchmail, samba and=20 > classic services are the main things that are running. >=20 > -How do I solve this ? Echoing a different max number ? > is it a definitive solution (how about the next boot) ? >=20 >=20 > thanks >=20 > Fred Hi Fred, I ran into this limit, too; to increase the default limit, I added the following script to my machine as /etc/init.d/setmaxfiles.sh: ----------------------------8<----------------------------- #! /bin/sh # Prevents kernel error message 'Too many open files' due to # the 8096 default. For more info, see: # http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/jreuter_imap_filemax.html # http://www.patoche.org/LTT/kernel/00000128.html =20 echo "65536" >/proc/sys/fs/file-max # This one for 2.2.x kernels only --> not for 2.4.x kernels: #echo "131072" >/proc/sys/fs/inode-max ----------------------------8<----------------------------- I have a symlink to this set up like so: $ cd /etc/rcS.d $ ls -l | grep setmax lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Aug 1 23:30 S37setmaxfiles.= sh -> /etc/init.d/setmaxfiles.sh With the above in place, the default is increased when the system boots up. Of course, it's safe to just run this from the command line on a running system, too; the limit is increased immediately. HTH, -Al --=20 a l a n d. s a l e w s k i [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- We have introduced a formidable cross-platform 32-bit suite. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Generated from WWW Marketing Phrase gizmo: www.lyra.org/phrase.cgi --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9omsLfJJcs/osNYgRAm3fAKCSvDDYZwxXdWggkprcX+qzEhB5DACffLFj oCLvLGiEduhvMLLOtsEoCg8= =py9D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR-- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
