MySQL error 1017: errno: 24

From Re: Mysqldump error 1017: errno: 24 - help?

Yep, that seems to have done it, at least when I'm testing it.  I'm
pretty sure the problem is fixed, but the next couple of days of
automated backups will tell.

Thanks!

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 00:43, Gleb Paharenko wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Try '--open-files-limit=8192' at least. Check the real value of
> open_file_limits with such statement:
>   show variables like '%open_f%';
>
> You can find some recommendations for SuSe Linux at:
>   http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Linux-post-install.html
>
> Mysql user <mysql@stripped> wrote:
> > Hi..
> >
> > I've got an ISP, and all of our customers have databases in our mysql
> > system.
> >
> > My backup command is:
> >
> > mysqldump --force --opt -A -pxxxxxxxx' | gzip -c >
> > /var/sqlbackup/mysqldump-`date +\%A`.sql.gz
> >
> > This has worked fine for some time.
> >
> > Now, however, I get an error message:
> >
> > mysqldump: Got error: 1017: Can't find file:
> > './usr_web22_1/invoices_va.frm' (errno: 24) when using LOCK TABLES
> >
> > On different runs, it reports different files, even right after
> > restarting mysqld.
> >
> > I've looked at the mysql documentation for this error; it's at
> > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Not_enough_file_handles.html
> >
> > I've looked at the startup script, put in '--open-files-limit=1024',
> > restarted mysql, and the error is the same.
> >
> > I've looked at the table_cache and max_connections system variables,
> > which are 64 and 100, respectively.
> >
> > My question is: what should I do now?
> >
> > Since table_cache and max_connections are far less than 1024, do I
> > reduce them even further?
> > Is there something else I should be looking at?
> >
> > This is mysql-3.23.52-106 on SuSE Linux 8.1, running on a dual PIII
> > 866Mhz system, with 512M of ram and 1G of swap, on a RAID-1 pair of 17G
> > hard drives.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
>
>
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