Too Many Files Open?

Hi list,

I have just installed Panther server and had some problems in doing so 
but finally got it work. The thing is that now I have severe problems 
with my WO installed.

First of all, the installer didn't upgrade because it scrambled 
everything and I realized by trial and error that I had to do a 
Software Update, some MacOSX 10.3.4 upgrade made through the 
SystemPreferences. When I did it, *everything* started to work fine.
At the next day my inbox was floded with mails saying that couldn't 
start my woapps because of an exception: "Too may open files". Checking 
the omni-list I found that there's some comments about this same 
problem but nothing that could help my in getting my server up and 
running. It keeps failing to start woapps as time passes until it gets 
a point where JavaMonitor can't communicate to port 1085 and even 
though some of my  woapps are running others are not and can't get them 
to start.

I used the ServerAdmin app to change some Apache settings, like 
"Maximun simultaneous connections to 150 (instead of 500 as it was)", 
the "Maximum persistent connections to 7", "connection timeout to 300 
seconds", "mininum spare servers to 3" and "maximum spare servers to 
7", but didn't help a bit, I get the same behaviour from my server. I 
also reviewed some "conf" files even though they are named ".obsolete" 
and there I can see a KeepAlive variable set to Off.

I use plain WO applications and never open or close sockets (barely 
heard of them), the fact is that I never used them before and all of a 
sudden I have to deal with them.

I've tried also to change the opened files limit with "ulimit" but it 
seems is not a command by itself ("command not found").

Is there any body there that has and solved this kind of problem?... 
I'm really dissapointed that the panther upgrade did this to my server, 
never before had to do anything about socket configuration.


-Carlos