Re: Too Many Files Open?

Thanks a lot list!... I'm working on it, but it seems something is not 
allowing me to set such limit. Pascal Robert contributed to this 
problem with the lsof command to check what is the number of opened 
files... I couldn't interpret the output.
With respect to the limit command I didn't find a useful "man" neither 
help "limit worked". Here's the output to those commands:

[orion:~] admin% limit -S -n 6000
tcsh: limit: No such limit.
[orion:~] admin% limit
cputime         unlimited
filesize        unlimited
datasize        6144 kbytes
stacksize       8192 kbytes
coredumpsize    0 kbytes
memoryuse       unlimited
descriptors     1024
memorylocked    unlimited
maxproc         100
[orion:~] admin% lsof | grep VREG
COMMAND  PID  USER   FD   TYPE     DEVICE   SIZE/OFF     NODE NAME
lsof    4196 admin    5r  VREG       14,9    3858620   655079 
/mach_kernel


-Carlos

On 4, Jun/2004, at 12:45 PM, Sumit Suman wrote:

> It will not. By default the lower version of OS X had higher value 
> (probably 2000) for ulimit.
> In the latest ones this value is less.
> If your application needs to open lot more, set it to value higher 
> than 6000.
>
> Regards,
> Sumit
>
> On Jun 4, 2004, at 10:36 AM, Carlos Maldonado wrote:
>
>> 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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