I've done quite a bit of searching with no results on this.

I run LimeWire on a Linux box (RH 8.1) with
./Shared
as my shared directory.

I have a 2nd Linux box (old, old, Mandrake kernel 2.4.8-2mdksmp) that is a file server. Within the ./Shared directory on the system I run LimeWire is an archives directory
./Shared/archives
This archives directory is mounted from my file server via the mount command
mount -t smbfs //system/share ./archives

I have the file permissions set properly. LimeWire sees and successfully shares the mounted contents. Here is the problem - after a time, my file server stopped responding. With some work I was able to get a list of processes. There were a large number of smbd processes open. Looking on the LimeWire box I discovered a correspondingly large number of java processes running. My file server was also displaying the error "Too many files open in system" and then "error while loading shared libraries: lib-so.6: cannot open shared object file: Error 23." The archives share does contain a large number of files.

Can anyone give me some pointers on this? I think I am experiencing a combination of issues. It may in-part be LimeWire and how it accesses files to share. It may also be that I need to make more resources available on both systems.

Thanks.

Which version of LimeWire are you using?

DOH - I tried to anticipate those questions and completely forgot to add the version information for my LimeWire client.

LimeWire Client 4.0.5.

That looks like a java problem, - which java version are you using?

Looks like a timeout somewhere in the smb settings. Limewire is very careful about closing the file descriptors while sharing the files; seems to me that the smb layer is keeping the remote handles open.

Try to look around in the smb settings for something that could suggest how long to keep remote files open?

]# java -version
java version "1.4.2_01"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_01-b06)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_01-b06, mixed mode)

I'm checking my smb settings.

Thanks for the assist!