well, if you legitimately need more file descriptors than the
average user, you can always:
cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-max /proc/sys/fs/file-max;
<increase these numbers conservatively>
sudo echo number > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max;
sudo echo number > /proc/sys/fs/file-max;
Simon Hill wrote:
> Sounds like you have a script or application running that is opening a lot
> of files and not closing them. You can list the open files with:
>
> /usr/sbin/lsof
>
> If it's not installed, it should be on your RedHat CD...
>
> Simon
>
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Tim Belding wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running RedHat 6.0 and starting today we suddenly
> > get a too many files open error. The machine has been
> > running for about a month now with no problems.
> >
> > Any ideas.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tim.
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