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Subject: Re: Perhaps the same lock up problem
To: khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar)
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 16:06:06 MET
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        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
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> 
> On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Jim Riffle wrote:
> 
> >Oh wow!  Now, my problem does not occur even close to that often.  Of the
> 
> Mine did (unfortunately).

You said you had the file table full message, right.  That basically means
that the global pool of file descriptors in the system is depleted: you cannot
open any new files, and you need some to log in, start new processes, those
things.

Make it bigger; it's a kernel configuration option.

/Marino
> 
> 
> >Looks like we may be on the right track here!
> 
> :-)
> 
> 
> --khg
> 
> 
>