Am Sonntag, 28. August 2005 22:00 schrieb Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.:

The value from the cat command was 50836. I have run the program in SuSE v9.3

This number should be big enough, so i think the problem is another one. Anyway, you can try to increase it like Eberhard already wrote in his posting. If it fails again, try to increase it more, but i'm quite sure that this is only a symptom of another error. regards, Jens

On Sunday 28 August 2005 22:32, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:

Hi,

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:

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I am running the beta 3. I received the 'too many open files' message while attempting to install a rather large program. A google search didn't seem to find any solutions that are applicable to SuSE. Assistance will be appreciated.

echo 65535 >>/proc/sys/fs/file-max

This controls the total number for the whole system. There is also a per user limit, usually 1024. That could be what the installer hits

Randall R Schulz wrote:

Hello,

On Sunday 28 August 2005 14:03, Anders Johansson wrote:

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echo 65535 >>/proc/sys/fs/file-max

This controls the total number for the whole system. There is also a per user limit, usually 1024. That could be what the installer hits

And to display this limit, use the BASH built-in "ulimit":

% ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited file size (blocks, -f) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32 max memory size (kbytes, -m) 1762390 open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 16369 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited

To reduce the per-process (_not_ per-user) open file limit:

% ulimit -n 512

% ulimit -n 512

The per-process value is inherited when sub-processes are created:

% ulimit -n 1024

% bash -i % ulimit -n 512 % ulimit -n 512 % exit

% ulimit -n 1024

Randall Schulz

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My thanks to all who answered. The problem has been solved. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Stephen P. Molnar [08-29-05 06:42]:

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My thanks to all who answered. The problem has been solved.

And....

Or do we have a game of suspense?

Oops. Sorry! Just follow the instructions earlier in the thread echo 65535 >>/proc/sys/fs/file-max ------- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://www.geocitite.com/FoundationForChemistry