[avahi] accept(): Too many open files

[Mark Edwards]

Running Avahi 0.6.16 on Debian 4.0.  I get a series of messages like  
the following each morning in the logs, like the following:

Mar 18 04:00:07 sqwubbsy avahi-daemon[6062]: accept(): Too many open  
files
Mar 18 04:00:08 sqwubbsy avahi-daemon[6062]: accept(): Too many open  
files
Mar 18 04:00:11 sqwubbsy avahi-daemon[6062]: accept(): Too many open  
files

This happens at the same time, 4am.  It coincides with a set of  
webmin cron jobs that presumably cause some kind of open file  
exhaustion, similar to the following bug report:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=461181

I have tried doubling my /proc/sys/fs/file-max from the default of  
99196 to 198392, and it seems to have no effect.

Can anyone here suggest something?  Thanks.

--
Mark Edwards