Change MAX_OPEN_FILES within autofs to 40960 or tunable
Issue
- The customer is configuring their autofs environment.
- They are planning to have mount point more than 10240 and they got following error when the number of mount point reached 10240, and mount fails:
get_mnt_list:363: setmntent: Too many open files
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
- autofs-5.0.5-73.el6
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