Too many files open error on CVS/Linux

[Brett G. Palmer]

We run cvs on Redhat 7.0.  CVS runs well for a few weeks but then we start
to get errors saying the following:

cvs server: cannot open .cvsignore: Too many open files
cvs server: cannot open .cvswrappers: Too many open files
cvs server: cannot open current directory: Too many open files

We usually have to reboot the server to fix the problem.  The problem is
becoming more frequent as CVS is used more and more.  This is probably a
Linux file handle limitation but is there a work around?  We are also using
the WinCVS client (version 1.3.7.1 Beta), but we have also seen this problem
on JCvs.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Brett