Hi David, Ok noted. Thanks for the reply. I really appreciated it :-)
Regards, Delz ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Delz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 10:54 PM Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Too many Files Open? > On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 22:51, Delz wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > > > Thank you for your email. Yes your right all workstations are running very > > smoothly using 10baseT Lan cards, I managed to replace all our hubs with > > switches and it showed vast improvements in terms of speed, it just so > > happened that I encountered this problem "too many files open" & "Dcopserver > > not running". If you don't mind me asking, how many no. of files to open > > should I assign for each user because I'm worried about users eating up my > > server's resources for opening up too many files or programs using their > > terminal. > > > > I believe your error refers to kernel resource limits, not user limits. > What does "cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max" show? For an LTSP server, I would > recommend 65,535. "echo 65535 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max " will set this > for you. You will need to set this after every server boot. If you are > running RedHat, add "fs.file-max=65535" to /etc/sysctl. Other > distributions handle this similarly. > > Here's what it does: > > The "/proc" filesystem lets you see and change many kernel parameters. > This particular file contains the number of open files supported by the > kernel. This number affects the amount of unswappable kernel memory, > but this is only significant on a low-memory machine. > > # echo 65535 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max > will tell the kernel to allocate 65,535 file handles. > > -David > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0003en _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
