RE: Failing to allocated file handles?

From: Jamie Harris (jamie.harris@eduserv.org.uk)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 07:28:27 EST


Alan,

Thanks for the response...

> Seems wildly improbable. And if you've reached the max file
> limit you set why do you expect the kernel to exceed it.

That's the thing, its nowhere near file-max, yet the number
of available file handles hits zero. File-max was at 235928,
~2000 file handles were alloacted, the available handles hit
zero but the number allocated didn't increase, if you see what
I mean.

> Given the max files is set based on the system memory I'd put
> my bet on it being a low memory box that hits the problem. If
> so just write a bigger value to the setting

2GB RAM, lots available

[root@cuboid logs]# free
             total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 2323304 2153068 170236 0 107176
1695984
-/+ buffers/cache: 349908 1973396
Swap: 2097112 832 2096280

Thanks for the response

Jamie...
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