Too Many files open

[webcave]

Hey,

Ive been running smooth for like 5 months now and the other day i kept getting forbidden errors so the error log shows

[Thu Jan 01 15:38:05 2009] [crit] [client 192.168.1.1] (24)Too many open files: /.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable

i have also increased the fs.file-max limit to 90000000 and it still dosent work :S

Any help greatly appreciated
WebCave

[till]

is this a vserver ot a physical server?

[webcave]

by physical you mean like I own the server right yeah and the whole server is set up with 800 clients and my site and I have the server ran from home

[falko]

Is this a virtual machine (like VMware, Xen, OpenVZ, KVM, etc.) or a physical system?

[webcave]

physical machine own server not vm ware or anything

its also Debian etch 4.0 64 bit

[falko]

Did you try this? http://www.patoche.org/LTT/kernel/00000128.html