Re: Too many open file error

On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Somchai LIMSIRORATANA wrote:

> Dear All,
> 	I browse my homepage serve by Jigsaw2.0beta2. When I repeat access the page
> , sometime the image cannot display, sometime the end of page was cut. So, I
>  use JigAdmin to 
> stop it but JigAdmin cannot connect and has an error message at server 3 tim
> es:
> 
> java.net.SocketException: Too many open files
>         at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.accept(PlainSocketImpl.java:387)
>         at java.net.ServerSocket.implAccept(ServerSocket.java:206)
>         at java.net.ServerSocket.accept(ServerSocket.java:189)
>         at org.w3c.jigsaw.http.httpd.run(httpd.java)
>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java) 
> 	
> 	What happen?

Well, your shell is set to have a low file descriptor limit. A web server
require some file descriptors available to many serve files at the same
time!
Read your shell man to set the limit to a higher value.

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