>To me, that means that his machine is allowing the new FD to be created, >but then can't really support that many so it gives an error.
files-max is 297834 ulimit is 1000000 (doesn't make sense but there you go) What I don’t really understand is with max_files_per_process at 800 we don't get the problem, but with 1000 we do. $lsof | wc -l 14944 $cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr 12240 0 297834 >Ralph, how many connections do you have open at once? It seems like the >machine perhaps just can't handle that many FDs in all of those >processes at once. There are only 30 connections - of those probably only 10 are really active. It doesn't seem like we should be stressing this machine/ >That is a lot of tables. Maybe a different OS will handle it better? >Maybe there's some way that you can use fewer connections and then the >OS could still handle it? It would be less but then you can't maintain the db b/c of the constant vacuuming needed :-( I think the linux folks would get up in arms if you told them they couldn't handle that many open files ;-) Thanks, Ralph -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.9/573 - Release Date: 05/12/2006 16:07 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly