[K12OSN] Too Many Open Files

[Huck]

can you not tweak your bittorrent client to reduce the number of files 
it tries to open?
Those two windows bittorrent clients you sent me links for had that as 
an option...

--Huck


Shawn Powers wrote:

>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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