Re: nautilus: too many open files....

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

I came accross this a while ago to do with exim.

The solution is to change your file max seetiing as follows
echo '32768, (example setting)>proc/sys/fs/file-max
as root
should work
putin rc.local etc to be permanent


On 13 May 2001 21:04:48 +0200, Jens Stroebel wrote:
>               Hiya.
> 
> I am using nautilus-1.0.3 on a SuSE-linux-platform with kernel 2.2.18.
> 
> While running nautilus, I experienced a rather inconvenient scenario a
> couple of times now:
> 
> Applications starting their scheduled work (sendmail, trying to deliver,
> f.e.) fail with "can't load shared library"-errors  (*panic*,
> log-searching... relief...). These errors get induced by nautilus having a
> list of open files which is longer than the remaining system alltogether.
> 
> Has anyone experienced similar problems and is there a possible fix
> aparet from teaching my kernel to allow more open files  ?
> I mean, it's a GUI, after all.... it shouldn't be able to block "real
> tasks" the machine has to do.
> 
> It's to much eye-candy to just leave it, though  :)
> 
>               greets, drifter
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