[xymon] linux disk space issue

[Tom Kauffman]

On Thursday 04 November 2010 08:34:02 am Nordquist, Daniel wrote:
> Hmm... Murphy's law...  As soon as I reach out for help, I find something
> that might work.
>
> I'm going to try setting fs.file-max=301472 in /etc/sysctl.conf to increase
> what must be the default of 101472 for the ext3 filesystem on this version
> of linux.
>
> Unless someone has a better idea?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>

That controls the number of files that can be open concurrently - it's a 
memory usage control, and won't affect disk usage.

Tom