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Re: Boot problem "VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached" anyone help?

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From: Jan Just Keijser
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:07
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have you been messing with ulimit settings anywhere? e.g. in the 
/etc/rc.d/rc.* scripts?

the message you're seeing is normally caused by having
  ulimit -n > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
e.g. you did
  ulimit -n unlimited
or
  ulimit -n <some-big-number>
somewhere.

Find the place where you changed ulimit settings, otherwise, try increasing 
the file-max value:

echo 32768 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
echo 131072 > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max

(according to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/proc.txt, inode-max = 3 or 4 * 
file-max is recommended).

but this does eat up a little RAM...

HTH,

JJK

In article <3B7A8163.C5949FB3@senet.com.au>, 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.
>
>

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JJK / Jan Just Keijser
Unix/Linux Systems Engineer
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