Thanks for the help!!! So now I'm puzzled! :(
here are my values: irvine:/$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/file-nr 192 irvine:/$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/inode-nr 1680 1502 irvine:/$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/file-max 1024 irvine:/$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/inode-max 3072 I'm only running about 15 virtual WWW domains from apache, but when I run httpd, it reports the "too many open files" error! :( How can it be if before running it, there are only 192 open? Thanks again, Ricardo On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Oskar Pearson wrote: > Hi > > > I tried running apache and got back the "too many open files" error. > > There are generally two possible errors: > You can have too many files open on your system (say you have lots of programs > that are opening a few files each) > or a single process (like apache) can open 256 files (this is the default > value) > > The one you can increase on the fly, the other not. > > To increase the total number that you can open on the system, you can > "echo" values to various files in /proc (assuming you are running 2.0.latest) > > > How can I check/monitor the number of file descriptors being used?? > cat /proc/sys/kernel/file-nr (maximum Overall open files on system opened) > cat /proc/sys/kernel/inode-nr (maximum Overall open inodes on system opened) > > cat /proc/sys/kernel/file-max (maximum files on the system that can be opened > concurrently) > cat /proc/sys/kernel/inode-max (maximum inodes on the system that can be > opened > concurrently) > > > Where do I change it if it needs to be increased? > > If you want to increase the files per process, have a look at > http://www.linux.org.za/tweak.html (Yes, I know that it is almost the only > thing on the server :( > > If you want to increase the number of maximum open files (ie the value > in file-max is the same as the value in file-nr) you can echo values as > follows: > > echo "4096" >/proc/sys/kernel/file-max > echo "12288" >/proc/sys/kernel/inode-max > > (inode-max's value is almost allways 3 times the size of file-max, keep it > that > way!) > > Oskar > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
