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Re: Too many files open error on CVS/Linux
From: |
Robert J. Clark |
Subject: |
Re: Too many files open error on CVS/Linux |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 19:45:04 -0400 |
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:10:35 -0600
"Brett G. Palmer" <address@hidden> wrote:
> We run cvs on Redhat 7.0. CVS runs well for a few weeks but then we
> start to get errors saying the following:
>
> cvs server: cannot open .cvsignore: Too many open files
> cvs server: cannot open .cvswrappers: Too many open files
> cvs server: cannot open current directory: Too many open files
>
> We usually have to reboot the server to fix the problem. The problem
> is becoming more frequent as CVS is used more and more. This is
> probably a Linux file handle limitation but is there a work around?
> We are also using the WinCVS client (version 1.3.7.1 Beta), but we
> have also seen this problem on JCvs. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
You can change the maximum number of open files on a Linux using the
following method:
echo 8192 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
you should also set inode-max to 3 or 4 times file-max.
echo 32768 > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max
You can make these change permanent by editing /etc/sysctl.conf (RedHat
only I believe)
See also:
<http://www.tldp.org/LDP/solrhe/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edition-v1.3/chap6sec72.html>
- Rob
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