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Is this a dedicated machine, or some type of virtual hosted environment?

I got this error in a (centos 4.x) virtual hosted environment recently when I exceeded my allowed process count (I was well below my open files limit).

• Richard

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Date: Thursday, August 19, 2010 01:44:47 PM -0400 From: Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com To: CentOS ML centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] too many open files

I am getting an error about to many open files. I tried to "echo 500000 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max" The number is there now, but I continue to get the error.

Is there something else to do?

Jerry _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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seems like there is a global value (which I did above) and a process limit ulimit -a tells all limits and ulimit -n 2048 seemed to work for me. Although I had to kill hte process and restart it.

Thanks,

jerry