SUMMARY: Increasing file handles

The short answer: My original changes to /etc/system were correct, but I
needed to recompile Apache to handle additional filehandles (It is 256 by
default).  As of right now I am running with 266 open files, so all appears
to be well.

/etc/system:
set rlim_fd_cur = 1024

Apache:
Re-Compile with extra flag -DFD_SETSIZE=1024

Other notes:

- A number of people suggesting lowering rlim_fd_cur to 1024 as a number of
tuning documents state this is the max

- The default for rlim_fd_max is 1024, so that does not need to be set in
/etc/system

- Another really good suggestion was to add 'ulimit -n unlimited' in my
startup script.  This would have taken care of my Solaris filehandles w/out
a reboot.

- About 50 people asked if I had remembered to reboot.  Must be more
specific next time ;)

thanks a bunch,

matt


> I moved a about 200 domains running under Apache to an U2.  After moving
the
> sites over, I have started to see the error "Too many open files: Could
not
> open..." in my logs.
>
> I added the following to /etc/system as advised in a number posts to other
> lists:
>
> set rlim_fd_max = 166384
> set rlim_fd_cur = 8192
>
> These settings have not solved my file handle problems.  Once I kill off
> some processes the box runs fine, but I kinda need the ones I killed :)
>
> Is there something else I need to do to increase my filehandles in Solaris
> 8?  I am running Solaris 8 64-bit on a Ultra 2.  I will summarize.
>
> thanks,
>
> matt
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