Linux下每个进程的能打开的最大句柄数

Linux下每个进程的能打开的最大句柄数

 

How to increase file descriptors max limit on Linux

posted on february 27, 2008 in hacks, howto, linux with 7 comments  

Today my DBA reported that the server she was working on was spitting out “too many open files” errors and no new processes could be started.

This is a common problem with DB servers with heavy transactions. In my environment there are 6 DB instances running on the server. No quite the optimized setup I would say.

The fix was to increase the total file descriptors kernel parameter count in the /etc/sysctl.conf file. I doubled my limit from 8192 to 16384.

The walk through,

1. Find out what the current open file descriptor limit is.

（下面这里，我们的服务器查询的数字是160万多，哈哈）

~# more /proc/sys/fs/file-max

 

~# 8192

 

or

~# sysctl -a | grep fs.file-max

 

~# fs.file-max = 8192

 

2. View how many open file descriptors are currently being used.

~# more /proc/sys/fs/file-nr

 

~# 8191

 

3. View how many files are open. The number returned might defer as 1 file descriptor can have multiple open files attached to it.

~# lsof | wc -l

 

~# 10325

 

4. Edit the kernel paramneter file /etc/sysctl.conf and add line “fs.file-max=[new value]” to it.

~# vi /etc/sysctl.conf

 

fs.file-max = 331287

 

5. Apply the changes.

~# sysctl -p

~# fs.file-max = 331287

 

Problem fixed.