Change MAX_OPEN_FILES within autofs to 40960 or tunable

Solution Unverified - Updated -

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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