Failed to init inotify - Too many open files
Issue
- Following error messages are seen in /var/log/messages (In this case from Samba, but other services produce the same message)
smbd[17895]: [2009/11/23 13:58:22, 0] smbd/notify_inotify.c:inotify_setup(293)
smbd[17895]: Failed to init inotify - Too many open files
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- 300 concurent users accessing the Samba share.
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