[ale] SOLVED: Re: "Too many open files" while opening a socket on Ubuntu

[JK]

Addendum: this fs.epoll.max_user_instances thing is apparently
a recent addition to the kernel (2.6.28), and the kernel
team has already decided it was a bad idea, and it's going
away as of 2.6.29.  I think this is the first time I've ever
been bitten by such a picayune detail of a single kernel version.
I just picked the wrong day to install Ubuntu, I guess :-/

-- JK


JK wrote:

> Your "sysctl -a" advice made it a LOT easier to see the whole limit
> picture, and grepping that output for the magic value 128 led me to
> /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances, which hmm, looks like it might
> have something to do with select/poll...
> 
> AND THAT WAS IT!
> 
> THANK YOU E+06 !!!!!
> 
> If I ever get down Atlanta way again, I owe you alcohol.
> 
> -- JK
> 


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