some tiems when igive the command

ls /home

it gives me the following error

"Too many open files in system"

what is be the problem

here is the log file entry



[2003/03/25 09:55:06, 0] rpc_server/srv_srvsvc_nt.c:share_info_db_init(130)
Failed to open share info database /var/cache/samba/share_info.tdb (Too many open files in system)



thanks

You can see how many open files allowed in your system with the following: "cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max". This can be increased, for example: "echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max" will increase this to 16384. Of course, next boot will reset this, so you can put this command in rc.local. You can also edit your kernel source and rebuild, if you prefer (see /usr/src/linux/include/linux/fs.h).

You may want to check the output of lsof to see if the problem is too many files open systemwide or for a particular process. The above procedure (minus the kernel build) fixes the systemwide problem.

This is a samba server, what could have caused the problem?

I have never encountered this problem before

what is kfmclient used for.

when i get the above error, i did a ' ps ax' command and saw abt
250 instant of the process running. when i killed all the process, the problem got solved

Description: Kfmclient, part of the kdebase package, is a command-line utility for opening a URL in Konqueror. (more)

http://apps.kde.com/na/2/info/id/883?sid=&sid=

thanks for that fsbooks