On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 02:25:16PM -0500, Jozef Gniadek wrote:
> > Hi folks
> > Maybe this is out of topic. On sun with solaris 2.5.1 are running mail
> > server and web server, I got error msg, something like ' out of file descriptors,
> > too many open files'......
> > What I should do?, how I may to increase file descriptors?, if this is posible...
>
>
> First, try starting qmail with the max # of file descriptors increased
> from the default maximum of 64 that solaris sets. You can do this
> with the ulimit builtin in most ksh-style shells, or with the limit
> command in csh-like shells.
>
> If that's not enough, find out what resources are available in the
> /etc/system file under 2.5.1. In 2.6, to up the # of descriptors can
> be upped by adding the following to /etc/system:
I recall having this problem with Solaris 2.5. I had to add a ulimit
command to one of my rc files, because it had some kind of exceptionally
low default for file descriptors. Check man ulimit....
James Smallacombe Internet Access for The Delaware
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Valley in PA, NJ and DE
PlantageNet Internet Ltd. http://www.pil.net
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