Mike Ward wrote:
I've written down a few of the libraries that programs don't seem to be able to load randomly, although I'd expect that the libraries aren't significant in this case, they just happen to be trying to load them at the same time that there's "too many open files". But, just in case, these are the ones that have come up in the past few days, all with "cannot open library x Error 23" libatk-1.0.so.0 libdb-4.2.so libeutil.so.0 libcrypt.so.0 libutil.so.1
What kernel version are you using and what is the output of: lsof | wc -l -mk