Thank you so much for this, Marc! I was suggesting this was the issue as well, and your encouragement got me to give it a shot. I ended up running, as the second link suggested:
sysctl -w fs.file-max=100000 And the procedure (in this case, restoring a cloud backup) worked fine. I suspect the issue has to do with the client from Pcloud, the cloud backup provider I use. It may be calling more files than the system can handle on default settings. Thanks again! Nathan On 2/13/20 12:25 AM, Marc Coevoet wrote: > Op 13/02/2020 om 07:35 schreef Nathan Schneider: >> Xubuntu friends, greetings. >> >> >> I'd be grateful for any hints about what might be the issue. I'm >> wondering whether the hardware might be faulty. >> >> Let me know if there are particular data points that could help clarify >> the problem—I know I have been less than rigorous in specifying it. >> >> Thank you in advance! >> > > > Is this "the number of open files" problem? > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/36841/why-is-number-of-open-files-limited-in-linux > > > https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-increase-the-maximum-number-of-open-files/ > > > > Marc > -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
