Re: Too many open files

[Russell <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>]

Fred wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It 's the third time my debian is complaining, just
> after booting, with a "too many open files", creating
> each time many files in my home directory I log to.
> Searching in Google, some files in /proc/sys/fs enable
> to change this behaviour.
> 
> -Why do I have this message ? : just after logging, I'm
> surprised there are so many open files ( file-max reports
> 8192 ) : apache, ftp server, exim, fetchmail, samba and
> classic services are the main things that are running.
> 
> -How do I solve this ? Echoing a different max number ?
> is it a definitive solution (how about the next boot) ?

Maybe you're running out of inodes: man mke2fs