RE: Failing to allocated file handles?

[Jamie Harris]

Alan, 

Thanks for the response...

> Seems wildly improbable. And if you've reached the max file 
> limit you set why do you expect the kernel to exceed it. 

That's the thing, its nowhere near file-max, yet the number
of available file handles hits zero.  File-max was at 235928, 
~2000 file handles were alloacted, the available handles hit
zero but the number allocated didn't increase, if you see what
I mean.

> Given the max files is set based on the system memory I'd put 
> my bet on it being a low memory box that hits the problem. If 
> so just write a bigger value to the setting

2GB RAM, lots available

[root@cuboid logs]#  free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers
cached
Mem:       2323304    2153068     170236          0     107176
1695984
-/+ buffers/cache:     349908    1973396
Swap:      2097112        832    2096280

Thanks for the response

Jamie...