It seems that after I installed cache_dirs I started getting a ton of these messages:

 

May 10 14:27:39 Tower shfs: shfs_readdir: opendir: /mnt/disk3/Series/Threshold/Season 1 (24) Too many open files
May 10 14:27:39 Tower last message repeated 27 times
May 10 14:27:39 Tower shfs: shfs_readdir: opendir: /mnt/disk4/Series/Threshold/.actors (24) Too many open files
May 10 14:27:39 Tower last message repeated 10 times
May 10 14:27:39 Tower shfs: shfs_flush: close: (9) Bad file descriptor
May 10 14:27:40 Tower shfs: shfs_flush: close: (9) Bad file descriptor
May 10 14:27:40 Tower shfs: shfs_open: open: /mnt/disk3/Series/Keeping up Appearances/Season 5/Keeping Up Appearances - S05E03 - Hyacinth is Alarmed.nfo (24) Too many open files
May 10 14:27:40 Tower shfs: shfs_readdir: opendir: /mnt/disk3/Series/Keeping up Appearances/Season 5 (24) Too many open files
May 10 14:27:41 Tower last message repeated 3 times

 

Anyone know how to get rid of these messages? Everything seems to be working fine otherwise..

To see the current max number of open files type:

root@Tower:/boot# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max

44346

 

To set it higher type:

root@Tower:/boot# echo "200000" > /proc/sys/fs/file-max

 

To see the new value:

root@Tower:/boot# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max

200000

 

hmm..

 

root@Tower:~# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max

201814

 

That should be enough no?

I can't imagine what would possibly need to keep 201814 files open at the same time.

Also, notice those "Bad file descriptor" messages.  Something is seriously wrong here.

Have you run a memtest lately?