HP system hangs with VFS: file-max limit reached errors
Issue
- Multiple systems became unresponsive with "
VFS: file-max limit 65536 reached" - Application team reported that the application utilizes a much lower number of open files than the limit
- vmcores were produced from a number of the affected machines for diagnostic purposes
Environment
- RHEL 6
- kernel-2.6.32-504.36.1.el6.x86_64
- HP Blade
- Proliant 460 G9
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