Re: Too many open files in system

Hello,

I have the same problem with RH 7.2. I set the file-max to 100000 from my
/etc/rc.d/rc.local:

echo "100000" > /proc/sys/fs/file-max

It works fine for me.

Best regards

Frank Jahn

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Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 07:47:02 +0200
From: "Skartveit, Ole" <[email protected]>
Subject: Too many open files in system
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Hi.

We are running a RedHat AS 2.1 system as a server for a Progress-based
application. About 15 different databases are running on the system and
about 150 users are logging on to use the application. The "file-max"
parameter is currently set to 65536, but at a couple of occations we
have har a "Too many open files in system" message - causing a DB
shutdown. The /proc/sys/fs/file-nr shows "65536   42002   65536" which
indicates that maximum file handles has been reached. Has anybody tried
to set the /proc/sys/fs/file-max beyond 65536?

Regards Ole