Re: Too many open files! how do I fix on linux?

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Barnard <tbarnard(at)povn(dot)com> writes:

Tim> <snip>
>> I set to 16384. with about 100 clients this seems to be enough. Best
>> way to set it is in your local rc script (/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/*local)
Tim> <snip>

Tim> How do you go about doing this on a RedHat 6.2 system? There is an
Tim> S99local file but nothing in it on setting maximum open files.

I had to do this last week. On RedHat 6.2 put this at the end
of /etc/rc.d/rc.local:

echo 8192 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
echo 32768 > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max

It increases file handles to 8192, you are supposed to have four times as many
inode handles as file handles so it increases those too.

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Martin Tomes

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