Have you checked on the ulimit for the user that is mysql?

On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Dan Nelson wrote:

> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 20:58:07 -0600
> From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
> To: Randy Arabie <rrarabie@arabie.org>
> Cc: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>, netbsd-help@netbsd.org,
>     mysql@lists.mysql.com
> Subject: Re: sysctl & process limitations
> 
> In the last episode (Feb 02), Randy Arabie said:
> > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > mysql.
> > > > kern.maxfiles = 1772
> > > 
> > > Raise that to (say) 5000.  I assume netbsd has an /etc/sysctl.conf you
> > > can use, or you can do it manually via "sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=5000" .
> > 
> > How high can I go??
> > 
> > Tried 5000, and it still bombs at the same point.  I set that at the 
> > kernel level and the descriptors at the process level.
> 
> The error might not actually be the kernel limit being reached.  It
> might just be the per-process rlimit.  What does "ulimit -n" print?
> 
> -- 
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson@allantgroup.com
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