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On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Rodolfo Baselli wrote:

> I got Bricolage up with no errors neither warnings.
> As I started using it, after some minutes adding
> accounts/groups/permissions via web, I got a nice "Internal server
> error" :-O
> The syslog showed no mercy:
> /kernel: file: table is full
> and another from sendmail (noone was using it):
> Too many open files in system

I think "sendmail" hit the nail on the head - your system has run out of
file descriptors. That probably means some process decided to start
eating them at a fantastic rate. I don't have any reason to believe it's
Bricolage, but it I guess it's possible! Reboot the box and see if you
can repeat the problem.

-sam



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>On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Rodolfo Baselli wrote:
>
>> I got Bricolage up with no errors neither warnings.
>> As I started using it, after some minutes adding
>> accounts/groups/permissions via web, I got a nice "Internal server
>> error" :-O
>> The syslog showed no mercy:
>> /kernel: file: table is full
>> and another from sendmail (noone was using it):
>> Too many open files in system
>
>I think "sendmail" hit the nail on the head - your system has run out of
>file descriptors. That probably means some process decided to start
>eating them at a fantastic rate. I don't have any reason to believe it's
>Bricolage, but it I guess it's possible! Reboot the box and see if you
>can repeat the problem.
>
>-sam
>

FWIW, I got this error while using bricolage two days ago. (I at the
time assumed I had set up too many test instances of apache running
on various ports of my testing server.)

I tried out some advice from the net, which suggested that the number
of open files available could be increased without rebooting. On my
Redhat Linux 6.2 system, this was by increasing the value stored in
/proc/sys/fs/file-max
by typing (as root)
echo "8192" > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
and also doubling the value stored in
/proc/sys/fs/inode-max

I am by no means an expert, I believe other operating systems either
have these files in other locations or do not allow this. And I also
think these values might be reset to lower values upon rebooting.

-Robert Wise




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