Re: Too Many Files Open?

But this solution is definitely?... I mean, isn't this just will delay 
the problem?... besides, I never had to do this before I did this 
server upgrade (grrr!!), I was a happy WOAdmin before, with jaguar 
10.2.8 and WO5.2.2

thanks anyway for your comments
-Carlos

On 4, Jun/2004, at 12:30 PM, Sumit Suman wrote:

> Hi Carlos,
>
> You need to set the ulimit to a higher value.
> If you are using "sh" shell use the following command. It is 
> recommended to put it in .profile in the home directory.
>
> ulimit -S -n 6000
>
> If you are using "csh" shell use the following command. It is 
> recommended to put it in .cshrc in the home directory.
>
> limit descriptors 6000
>
> This works for me.
>
> Regards,
> Sumit
>
> On Jun 3, 2004, at 3:15 PM, Carlos Maldonado wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
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