> At this point it is clear that it is an operating system issue. Frederik is correct on this, I tested with CentOS 5. Here is an example of setting the hard and soft limit: * soft nofile 8192 * hard nofile 65535 After that: ulimit -n 8192 And you'll be set.
> We were using Mysql as the persitence store but took it out thinking that may > be the cause. You'll actually be better off switching back to the jdbcPersistenceAdapter if you want to reduce the number of open files. The AMQ persistence store opens a file for every queue created. JLuna