Dieter Faulbaum wrote:
I have a small problem under Debian etch with a (vanilla) kernel
2.6.14.3 on a AMD 64 (32-bit) system with 1GB memory:
often I see error messages about running out of file handles.
'cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max' shows: 4096
This seems very sparse for 1GB memory.
Looking at Documentation/proc.txt I found this.
...
The value in file-max denotes the maximum number of file handles
that the Linux kernel will allocate. When you get a lot of error
messages about running out of file handles, you might want to raise
this limit. The default value is 10% of RAM in kilobytes. To change
it, just write the new number into the file:
...
# echo 8192 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
Okay this works, but I don't understand why this value is so small.
Is anyone else here with such a problem and can explain why this
value is so small?
On another computer with etch (but an Intel Pentium 4 CPU) I get 89808,
which is what I expect from the docu.
Well, you're not getting any answers to solve this.
This is what I would do in your case.
I would run on 2.6.14-ck6 from:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/
using the .config file you are using now.
Then I would go to their very active mailing list and ask the question
on why this happened. They are all kernel gurus. That will get you the
answer.
BTW I run Sarge on that kernel. I find it snappier that the others
because of the scheduler work that has been done.
H
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