🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 23:34:19 +0930, Sean Chivers <saminc@senet.com.au>
wrote:

>Hi all.
>
>I had a surprise booting up to Mandrake 7.2 today.
>
>Boot was correct from hdb1, with all hardware and drivers loaded ok. No
>hint of trouble until logon was complete. After Last Logon date, the
>error in the subject header is given, then the kernel proceeds to
>attempt to load the ld-linux.so.2 module.
>
>It waits a while then returns the syntax "Unable to load interpreter
>/lib/ld-linux.so.2".
>
>If I attempt to "startx", I get the syntax "blah blah(path&filename):Too
>many files open in system".
>
>Looks like a memory or virutal ram problem. But I am not in the least
>any sort of expert in such matters.
>
>Unfortunately I can't remember if I was stuffing around with any
>Mandrake x settings to cause this...
>
>Anyway, I thought it might be a boot sector problem, because I recently
>had to re-install (dare I say it...) Win 98 SE (on a completely separate
>drive and partition, so I booted from kernel floppy, but got the same
>problem. Don't remember seeing this before re-installing LILO after the
>win install. But there again, I simply dont' recall, as I've been too
>busy at work to logon at home for a long while... (any excuse).
>
>Can anyone venture a guess as to the cause and (hopefully) solution to
>my dilemma?
>
>I appreciate your assistance,
>
>Regards, Sean.
>
>
Seems like you are in a bad way having 8192 files open at boot.

The good news is this is configurable on the fly.

You can up the tunable file-max in the kernel by echo'ing the new
limit to /proc/sys/fs/file-max:

	echo 16384  > /proc/sys/fs/file-max

This will double the amount of available file handles but is
temporary.  if you want it to be permenent then put it in a startup
file /etc/rc.d/rc.local or equivalent.

You should be able to use "lsof" to take a look at the open files
which may help diagnose what has gone wrong.

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Good Luck
Tommy