[cups.general] Unable to create job status pipes - Too many openfiles.

[Michael Sweet]

Joost Cogels wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are currently running into problems with the cups-1.2b2-rhel4 
> package, used in combination with Samba to provide printing services to 
> Windows clients. CUPS seems to run fine for a while, but after a while 
> it stops printing. The following lines can be found in 
> /var/log/cups/error_log:
>> E [14/Mar/2006:14:01:33 +0100] Unable to create job status pipes - Too 
>> many open files.
>>
>> E [14/Mar/2006:14:03:19 +0100] Unable to open "/dev/null" - Too many 
>> open files.
> Any idea what could be causing the "Too many open files" errors?

How many clients are connected when you see this message?

How many active jobs do you have?

Have you set MaxClients to any particular value in cupsd.conf?

What does "limit" show?

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