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From: gjb@cs.brown.edu (Gregory Brail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Maximum number of open files on AppleShare?
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Date: 11 Sep 90 09:00:12 GMT
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Reply-To: gjb@cs.brown.edu (Gregory Brail)
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
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Is there a maximum number of files that can be open at once on an
AppleShare server? I administer a network of 13 Macs and a Mac Plus
with 1 MB of RAM running AppleShare. Recently, the network sometimes
gets in the state where no files can be opened from any of the server
volumes. (We get error -54, I think, "Can't open file.") This seems to
happen when all the nodes on the network are in use. It also affects
saving in Microsoft Word -- the error message pops up and the file
becomes "Untitled."

Does this happen because AppleShare can't open enough files? Is there
any way to increase the maxiumum number of files that can be opened,
short of getting an SE/30 or Mac II with lots of RAM for a file
server?

Also, I didn't have this problem until recently, when I made some
changes. Specifically, I started using INITShare for many of the
"diskless" Mac Pluses so I wouldn't have to update 10 startup disks
whenever a new version of the Disinfectant virus-checking INIT comes
along. I imagine this means more files are open on the server, but can
INITShare cause any other unforseen problems?

Thanks for the help.

					-greg


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