[SunHELP] Too many files open ?

[Nicholas Dronen]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:27:51PM +0100, Michael Karl wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> yesterday a Ultra2 with Solaris 8 crashed.
> 
> In the messages-file there are only two lines just before the crash.
> 
> Oct 29 15:10:51 Sun-Server pcshare[29603]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] pipe:
> Too many open files
> Oct 29 15:10:51 Sun-Server last message repeated 2 times

If by "crash" you mean "panic," it's not clear that the
server crashed.  Could you login?  Were current sessions
unresponsive?  Could you ping the machine?

(A panic is when the kernel or a device driver incur
a fatal error (e.g., accessing invalid memory).)

This sounds more like the case of a runaway process.
Can you provide more information?  

Regards,

Nicholas Dronen