On Nov 28, 2007 3:55 PM, Guy Boisvert <boisvert.guy@videotron.ca> wrote:
Garrick Staples wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:03:30PM -0500, Guy Boisvert alleged:
>> Hi all!
>>
>>      I have a problem with CentOS 4.4 and Communigate Pro 5.0.9.  As our
>> user number grows, we are seeing "too many files open" error messages in
>> Communigate logs.
>>
>>      I spoke with Communigate tech support and they asked me to increase
>>      the number of file descriptors which i did.  I put 128000 as a script i
>> made to check Communigate open files reported as high as 99000.    As i
>> checked the Communigate log file, it reported that it "sees" 1024
>> "available" file descriptors.
  :

When I saw this, "ulimit -n" immediately came to mind ....
(and is usually 1024 -- the maximun # of files that any given
process can have open).  [See "man ulimit".]

If this runs as non-root, it won't be able to take the limit
higher ....

Hope this helps (and is not completely off-base)....

   -rak-