topic Re: File table overflow in Operating System - Linux

File table overflow

Franklin — Tue, 15 Oct 2002 14:57:20 GMT

OS 10.20
Message error:
File table overflow
Some recomendatios.
increase your nfile
How do this?

I have lisence to 32 users

Re: File table overflow

Ted Ellis_2 — Tue, 15 Oct 2002 16:20:56 GMT

take a look at the man page for sysctl

the tunable parameters are under /proc/sys... for nfile it is actually file-max

you will need to add an entry to the /etc/sysctl.conf file. Man page on sysctl.conf to get the format. Enter sysctl -a to get a list of the current kernel paramters.

this link is good: shows how to change the kernel setting in a way that sticks after reboot
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x847750011d20d6118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

and

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xf613237a4bc6d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

Ted

Re: File table overflow

Stuart Browne — Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:23:54 GMT

Umm, Ted.. If you look a bit closer, you'll notice he says "OS 10.20", and "lisence to 32 users". He's talking about HP-UX, not Linux.

Posted in the wrong forum unfortunately.