On Thursday 06 April 2006 16:46, Chuck wrote:
> this one is weird. could i be reaching some kind of max on a gentoo
> platform?
>
> we are running approx 40 vserver guests on a 4 processor dell. our email
> server is running on the 'host' side.
>
> my tip on this came from our email list server. the log stated:
>
> 6 10:20:19 error: Still trying to open connection Too many open files
>
> and this is in the log many times. not knowing if this is a program or
> system error causing this i am taking the safe route while i wait for the
> program support people to let me know...
>
> is there a setting somewhere in the vserver system, i assume on the host,
> that the number of open files can be set? i dont even know what the stock
> max is..
Perhaps /proc/sys/fs/file-max ?
Just modify the value by echoing the new value
or use sysctl -w fs.file-max= and modify /etc/sysctl.conf
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