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Author: Vadim Vygonets
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] (Possibly Off Topic) "Too many open files in system" error
Quoth Anand Buddhdev on Mon, May 03, 1999:
> You may also want to recompile the kernel to allow it to allocate more
> resources.


I'm not using Linux, but our Linux guys gave me the following
instructions how to increase open file limit on a running system:

| echo 4096 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
| echo 12288 > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max
| echo 300 400 500 > /proc/sys/vm/freepages
| (from Kernel-HOWTO)


Vadik.

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