2.0.33 : too many open files

John Taylor (john@pollux.cs.uga.edu)
Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:33:24 -0400 (EDT)

Hi, I am running 2.0.33 on a pentium that runs a very recent version of
samba (probably a few month old). I am serving apps such as MS Office 97,
NS Communicator Pro 4.05, and Borland C++ 5.0. These are in CS 101/201
labs, that at any given time will have 24, 48, or more students logged in
all running one or two of the apps.

When I telneted in, and tried to do a few things (simple things), I got
error messages like "too many open files", and then I would also get
segmentation faults for programs like ls, and I wanted to do smbstatus |
grep ^[0-9] | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr, which also would fail.

Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this? I think I may have to
modify the kernel somehow. Also should I upgrade to 2.0.34, will this solve
the problem?

Thanks

John Taylor Computer Science Department
System Administrator University of Georgia
john@cs.uga.edu http://www.cs.uga.edu/

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