This can be changed dynamically by writing to /proc/sys/fs/file-max
For example, to change to 8192,
echo "8192" > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
BTW, I think this was introduced in 2.2.x kernels...
Regards
SOjan.
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Ravi Ananth Giri K. wrote:
>
> One of our m/c's which had samba, vnc running and was being used as a development
>m/c(accesed by 8 ppl regularly) used to have a perennial problem - it used to report
>that "shared libraries could not be loaded - too many open files in system".
>
> The problem was solved by recompiling the kernel after increasing the values in
> fs.h and limits.h
>
> Can someone tell me whether this is normal; or colud this problem have occured due
>to something else entirely ?
>
> Regards,
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