My Mysqld stopped accepting connections with Error log: 010910 15:34:19 Error in accept: Too many open files 010910 15:49:02 /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld: Normal shutdown when trying to connect I got: ERROR 2013: Lost connection to MySQL server during query changed max_connections and restarted server got error.log : 010910 15:49:04 /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld: Shutdown Complete 010910 15:49:04 mysqld ended 010910 15:49:15 mysqld started 010910 15:49:15 Warning: setrlimit couldn't increase number of open files to more than 1024 010910 15:49:15 Warning: Changed limits: max_connections: 300 table_cache: 357 /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections Documentation states: open_files_limit If this is not 0, then mysqld will use this value to reserve file descriptors to use with setrlimit(). If this value is 0 then mysqld will reserve max_connections*5 or max_connections + table_cache*2 (whichever is larger) number of files. You should try increasing this if mysqld gives you the error 'Too many open files'. Can I increase setrlimits limit to more then 1024, or is that the ceiling on my OS/ hardware? (I thought about dropping the value of wait_timeout from 8 hours to 4 (or 2) hours, as this would disconnect idle clients. I have numerous apache clients, all with many children hanging onto a connection. Any thoughts about this before I do it?) Thanks, Robin Running Redhat Linux 7.1 on intel Mysql version 3.23.37-log Some Variables: | open_files_limit | 0 | max_connections | 300 | max_user_connections | 0 | max_tmp_tables | 32 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php