[GRLUG] Increasing number of open files

[Roberto Villarreal]

I'm running an program and getting a "Too many open files" error.  This is one 
topic that google has no shortage of hits for, but none of them that don't 
require another kernel compile have worked.  In a nutshell, I've:

- read Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt (not much help)
- set/altered various 'files' in /proc/sys/fs/
- tried various things with 'ulimit'
- rebooted and turned off most unneeded services/programs
- verified that the program runs correctly on a second computer

In the meantime, I'm going to start a compile, but I was curious if anyone had 
encountered this, and if so, has a solution that I didn't include above.

Running Debian and kernel 2.6.18

Roberto