is a vfs limit?

iarly selbir iarlyy at gmail.com
Thu Feb 12 11:33:48 UTC 2009


Thanks Sam.

Regards,

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iarly selbir ( ski0s )

:wq!


On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Sharpe, Sam J <
sam.sharpe+lists.redhat at gmail.com <sam.sharpe%2Blists.redhat at gmail.com>>wrote:

> 2009/2/11 iarly selbir <iarlyy at gmail.com>:
> > can anyone tell me what mean this messages?
> >
> > Feb 11 14:08:02 ski0s kernel: VFS: file-max limit 204674 reached
>
> You've probably hit the maximum number of open files.
>
> [sjs298 at cc-6910p ~]$ sysctl fs.file-max
> fs.file-max = 202566
>
> [sjs298 at cc-6910p ~]$ sudo sysctl -w fs.file-max=1000000
> fs.file-max = 1000000
>
> [sjs298 at cc-6910p ~]$ sysctl fs.file-max
> fs.file-max = 1000000
>
> To make the changes permanent, you need to add a line to /etc/sysctl.conf:
> fs.file-max = <a number>
>
> Shells also have a maximum number of open files which may need to be
> adjusted in /etc/security/limits.conf, but I don't think you are
> hitting that because the message wouldn't come from the kernel.
>
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