lists-centos wrote: > 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 > > > ------------ Original Message ------------ > >> Date: Thursday, August 19, 2010 01:44:47 PM -0400 >> From: Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> >> To: CentOS ML <centos at 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 at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > ------------ End Original Message ------------ > > > > 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