N900 - too many open files

Rolf Offermanns rolf.offermanns at gmx.net
Sun Jun 13 14:16:35 CEST 2010


Hi,

just a hint for N900 users. Some parts of kdepim (I guess nepomuk) seems 
to be quite generous in opening lots of files.

At least on my system this results "too many open files" errors after a 
while.

Symptoms: Empty dialogs in kmail-mobile, akonadiconsole fails to start 
(unable to load xxx.so)

Work-around: Increase allowed number of open files (as root):

echo 99999 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max

The default is 8192, choose a value that suits you. 99999 might be a bit 
too much, but it works here.

-Rolf


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