[K12OSN] Too Many Open Files

[Shawn Powers]

I always hate asking questions of the list when I'm so far behind (395
unread messages.. it's been a rough few weeks) -- but school is about to
start, and I'm getting a very scary message...

When I am running azureus (a java bittorrent client) -- I am getting
errors that there are too many open files.  I remember this being an issue
a while back, so I searched the archives, and came across the instructions
to edit /etc/sysctrl.conf -- BUT my default (4.0.1) installation already
has fs.file-max = 65536 at the bottom!!!

Then, I got to thinking... perhaps I should check my NFS /home server,
which is running WBEL 3.0 -- I checked, and sure enough, there was no
mention of fs.file-max in the /etc/sysctl.conf file.  I added it, ran
sysctl -p, and I'm waiting to see.

My question, might that have solved the problem?  It's a tough thing to
"test" because it's difficult to open 65,000 files at will... ;)  Would
the file handles on my NFS server cause errors in applications on my LTSP
server?

Thanks for any input,
-Shawn

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Inland Lakes Schools
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