On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:19:24AM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > Yeah, ulimit won't do it. We hit this issue with mimedefang, actually. > > Our problem is that the kernel is doing the limiting. We ended up > > having to split things up a good bit into multiple processes to get > > everything working. We also added another machine to the cluster to try > > to reduce the load on any one server at a time. Nothing we did with > > ulimit made a bit of difference. > http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-increase-the-maximum-number-of-open-files/
# sysctl fs.file-max fs.file-max = 206524 And tracking fs.file-nr indicates that the total number of files open in the entire system barely exceeds 2000 when the lists are flying. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux Developer & Council Member E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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