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Article #436Re: Boot problem "VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached" anyone help?
From: Jan Just Keijser
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:07
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. > > --------------------------- JJK / Jan Just Keijser Unix/Linux Systems Engineer smtp: janjust@cisco.com flames > /dev/null 2>&1 ---------------------------
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