Hi, On Tue, Dec 29, Robert Goley wrote:

I am having trouble with an application that we recently ported to suse linux. We are getting errors when running reports that open more that 24-28 database files. We are using Faircom Ctree local database. It does not seem to be a database problem but a file limit problem. Is there a way to specify the maximum number of files that can be opened at a system or user level. We use other unix flavors also that we have had to do this to but I am at a loss as for where to start in linux(having already checked the kernel and yast and other files in the /etc dir). Any suggestions?

The maximum number of open files for the whole system can be tuned at runtime using: echo "4096" > /proc/sys/kernel/file-max echo "12288" > /proc/sys/kernel/inode-max This sets the number of open files to 4096 The number of open files per program is 256. If this is not enough for your application, you need to use a patched kernel (see ftp.suse.com:/pub/SuSE-Linux/suse_update/kernel/Informix) and recompile the application with a redefined value of NR_OPEN. A pre-patched kernel for large fds will be contained in SuSE Linux 6.0 -o) Hubert Mantel Goodbye, dots... /\\ _\_v - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>