Too many open files

[John Hearns]

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 11:48, Dave Oxley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> During the build of our application on a FC2 server running as a 
> non-root user we get this error message:
> java.io.FileNotFoundException: 
> /var/staffplanner/build/staffplanner/trunk/releaseGeneric/html/modern/pt/EmployeePayRateScrollPageNavigation.html 
> (Too many open files)
> 
use sysctl to alter the fs.file-max parameter
Its a kernel, rather than a userspace, parameter.
This parameter is held in /proc/cyc/fs/file-max
so you could just as easily echo a value to that.
But using sysctl.conf will set this at boot time (rc.sysinit)