Too many open files unix error

Improve this answer. Ed Morton Ed Morton k 17 17 gold badges 66 66 silver badges bronze badges. Ed, thank you very much for your instructions. I used the first command that you suggested and work perfectly actually I'll check some files manually just to be sure, but I think it is perfect.

Thanks to everyone who took their time to help me with this, much thankful. Just as curiosity: this run took more than 1 hour to complete You're welcome.

Kindly try following and let me know if this helps you. RavinderSingh13 RavinderSingh13 k 10 10 gold badges 45 45 silver badges 84 84 bronze badges. Thank you for answering Ravinder! Unfortunately didn't work. First returned these errors: awk: 1: unexpected character '. Then I took off the ". S are you using? I'm using ubuntu as a virtual machine Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password.

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New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Visit chat. Related We, at Bobcares have monitored this closely and have come up with a few solutions:. A large number of files can be opened if we change the limits in our Linux OS. A change in the limit of open file descriptors for a specific service, rather than for an entire operating system is possible. In addition to changing the limit on the number of open files to a web server, we should change the service configuration file.

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