Re: [SLE] SMBFS/SAMBA question on open files

Sounds like you are running out of file descriptors (or inodes) cat /proc/sys/kernel/file-nr will tell you the number of open files (inode-nr for inodes) These can be upped by changing the values in /proc/sys/kernel/file-max i.e. cat '16384' >> /proc/sys/kernel/file-max Jerry Feldman wrote:

I backup my wife's Windows ME system to free space on one of my hard drives each night, and have been receiving the message "too many open files". While rsync is pretty intensive, I've been living with the problem. However, I was trying to fix a Windows Explorer bug, and downloaded a registry patch.

mv: cannot stat `exp.txt': Too many open files in system

While composing this message, I was successfully able to mv exp.txt exp.reg and back without that message, and my wife has both her email and Netscape running.

My system is SuSE 8.2 with current updates applied, 2.4.20 Athalon kernel. The Windows system is Windows ME.

Normally, at night she leaves her email program up, but closes the browser.

-- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

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