On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:10:35 -0600 "Brett G. Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We run cvs on Redhat 7.0. CVS runs well for a few weeks but then we > start to get errors saying the following: > > cvs server: cannot open .cvsignore: Too many open files > cvs server: cannot open .cvswrappers: Too many open files > cvs server: cannot open current directory: Too many open files > > We usually have to reboot the server to fix the problem. The problem > is becoming more frequent as CVS is used more and more. This is > probably a Linux file handle limitation but is there a work around? > We are also using the WinCVS client (version 1.3.7.1 Beta), but we > have also seen this problem on JCvs. Any help would be greatly > appreciated. You can change the maximum number of open files on a Linux using the following method: echo 8192 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max you should also set inode-max to 3 or 4 times file-max. echo 32768 > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max You can make these change permanent by editing /etc/sysctl.conf (RedHat only I believe) See also: <http://www.tldp.org/LDP/solrhe/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edition-v1.3/chap6sec72.html> - Rob
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