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["Morten Christensen" <suse-sle@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alleman, Lowell" <lowella@xxxxxxxx>
To: "'Morten Christensen'" <suse-sle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-msdos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 7:53 PM
Subject: RE: [SLE] Too many open files


Thanks for your answer.

> It looks like you posted this a few days back.  If you're
still having this
> problem, here are some things to try:
>
>
> I believe that you can modify the maximum number of open
files by looking at
> files in the /proc file system.  ( I didn't look at any
docs, I'm just going
> from memory here...I did try this on my system and it
appears to work the
> way I expected.)
>
>
> To see the maximum number of files type in:
>
> #  cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
> 8192
>
> My system reports 8192.  I think you can change this
number by login in as
> root, and doing some like this:
>
> # echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max

I tried this advice.

now a mount-attempt gives this answer:

/root/bin/mount: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

And the new file-max disappears after a reboot.

A really nasty "blue screen of dead" just in a black
console:-[


mvh
Morten Christensen

> I checked to see if my entry was accepted by re-running
the first command.
> This time I got back '16384', so it looks like it worked.
I don't have an
> easy way to test this limit on my system...... I can't
image that you would
> ever really need that many files open at once, but I'm no
expert...
> You can see what files are open by using the 'lsof'  (LiSt
Open Files)
> command:
>
> # lsof
>
> You may need to install it youself.  (rpm -ivh
lsof-x.xx.rpm)
> If this doesn't help, you may want to check your
installation.  I'm
> suggesting this because what you have described sound
kinda weird, and it
> never hurts to verify the integrity of your system.  You
can easily check
> the installed packages by running "rpm -Va"  (this will
(V)erify (a)ll of
> the packages on your system.)  Pull up the rpm man page
for help on
> interpreting the output.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Morten Christensen [SMTP:suse-sle@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 9:41 AM
> > To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [SLE] Too many open files
> >
> > SuSE 7.3 pro. ReiserFS on harddrive.
> > Enough free space on partitions.
> >
> > I connot mount my cd-drive.
> > On first attempt I get the message:
> >
> > /bin/bash: eror while loading shared libraries:
> > libhistory.so.4: cannot oven shared object file: Error
23
> > On second attempt I get:
> > /root/bin/mount: /root/bin/mount: bad interpreter: Too
many
> > open files i system
> >
> > I think I have got a lot of open files, when unpacking
> > a rar-archive. I manualle deleted about 19.000 files
from
> > /tmp.
> >
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >
> > mvh...
> > Morten Christensen
> > from Denmark
> >
> >
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