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Troubleshooting 'too many open files'

Published 8 Jan 2010 Read time 3 min(s) 41 sec(s) (2650 visits).

Applications or servers can sometimes fail with an error indicating that there are too many open files for the current process. Most of the time.

Updated 11 Feb 2005 Read time 58 sec(s) (2525 visits).

Depending on the programming interface used, an application may not be able to reach the file descriptor limit.