Too many open files?

[Butch Ammon]

Good morning...

I recently saw a weird error message on filePro on SCO Unix yesterday (just one 
time, never happend the rest of the day, etc...)

Yesterday was a busy day.  Everybody was working away and had countless things 
going on and multiple sessions of ICE-TCP (DejaWin) open, which enabled them to 
open two dclerks.  Others were busy with reports and other processing and 
whatnot.  The SCO Unix server was working hard -slow- but kept up and handled 
all the users and sessions and multiple processes going on at once.

THEN.... One of the ladies upstairs was entering in a new order, which makes 
dozens of lookups, system commands, and call statements to complete the order.  
Right as she hit ESC ESC, she got this message:

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*** A filePro Error Has Occurred***

File Table Full.

Too many filePro files open at once.
Maximum is 20.
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It kicked her out of the system, so then she closed out of everything, opened 
one session of ICE-TCP, got back into filePro, re-entered the order and it was 
perfectly fine and never happend again.

I checked my Unix systems' /etc/profile, and I have PFFILES set to 110.  So I 
have no idea what caused the system to say "File Table Full".  Was it the number
of users in the system and perhaps everyone was doing lookups and call 
statements and whatnot at that precise moment that the lady was finishing 
entering the order and hit ESC ESC?

Has anyone seen this error before?  Like I said, it happend only once that I 
have seen on a very busy day.  How can I prevent it from happening again?

Thanks for the help.

Butch Ammon
Super Radiator Coils
Richmond, VA