Re: Too Many Files Open Error

["Rod Rodolico" <stargazer@dailydata.net>]

However, another question is why too many files are open. The reason I
asked is because I had this problem on a clients site not too long ago and
it turned out someone had cracked the server and was using it to send
spam. Do you have enough traffic to be able to expect > 4096 files open
simultaneously? That is what the max is in my older Debian install.

Rod


> Gene Grimm wrote:
>> I have recently begun getting error messages from Postfix and other
>> packages
>> reporting "too many files" error messages. Can anyone suggest where to
>> check
>> on how many files can be open or adjust this limit if possible?
>>
>
> Have a look at the /proc/sys/fs/ directory, and file-max and file-nr in
> particular. You should be able to change file-max by simply writing a
> number to that file.
>
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>


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