[Lxc-users] Many containers and too many open files

[Andre Nathan]

On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 16:47 +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> Mmh, I don't remember exactly what I did (that was last year). But you 
> are right, the containers where spawned one after the other. I think I 
> was doing lxc-wait -n <name> -s RUNNING before running the next 
> container. As I have a 8 cores, that did not take so much time to boot 
> (2 minutes).

Interesting, I didn't know about lxc-wait. Thanks!

> Google says you can setup these tables with the following values if you 
> encounter this problem.
> 
> echo 256 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/default/gc_thresh1
> echo 512 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/default/gc_thresh2
> echo 1024 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/default/gc_thresh3
> 
> Do they fix your problem ?

I found that, but even with much larger values for the thresholds I'm
still getting the error.

Thanks
Andre