[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia errors this morning

Jimmy Wales jwales at bomis.com
Fri Aug 31 19:12:02 UTC 2001


Basically, the machine had too many files open and choked and died.  The problem
has been fixed now, and we'll be monitoring to make sure it doesn't happen again.

We upped the number of permissible open files, and I'm looking into it to see
whether some runaway process did something stupid.  :-)

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