Re: [2.0.36] weirdness during mild ftp load

Simon Ekstrand (simius@algonet.se)
Sat, 9 Jan 1999 14:48:35 +0100 (CET)


On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Tygrys wrote:

> Hi!
>
> One of my servers had some strange problems during mild ftp load...
> About 90 ftp users, all active, mail routing, many shells, http, etc.
>
> Then I got hundreds of ``Unable to load interpreter'' and ``Too many
> open files on filesystem'' error messages. Running processes were still
> ok, but I couldn't use keyboard in their consoles. I hardly managed to log
> in as root and kill all those processes (ftpd was the biggest problem).

Have you tried simply increasing the value in /proc/sys/fs/file-max ?
Or am I completely missunderstanding the problem? :)

-Simon Ekstrand (simius@algonet.se)

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