[BUGS] error "too many open files"

[jonathan michaels]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 03:03:10PM +1100, Callum Gibson wrote:
> On 16Feb08 14:40, jonathan michaels wrote:
> }back in my day (v2.2.7-r) tuning was an educated guess and if
> }it worked great, if not guess again, also it was one item to
> }change .. would i have to change all these, and teh others
> }further down the list ? what would be a reasonable percentage
> }increase on based on teh current values, say 100  percent
> }increas, 200, 300 ?? what is concidered reasonable on a
> }x11/gnome/kde environment these days .. please ?
> 
> Unless you're doing something unusual the defaults should be sufficient
> for any windowing environment. You haven't left any so-called "tuning"
> parameters in sysctl.conf from 2.2.7 days I hope.

not a one .. i cleand off teh hard disk (ok, i back up teh
files i wanted to keep, nothing from /etc/ ( or any other config
files ).

> With a 6.X environment you should just install and it will
> work fine as a desktop with nothing special.

this is just what i did (and cannot still understand why two of
my machines sendmail dose not work ( .fullstop. ) but that
another issue/grizzle/etb,,,,dycetra)

it runs fro a week perhaps two and then i have to reboot when
teh cycle start all over again resulting in a 'too many files
open" i just do not understand wht is going on .. it doesnt
make sence too me.

o'well time to reboot and start again.

thanks callum

much kind regards

jonathan

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