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Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 10:29:21 +0100
From: Chris Stenton <jacs@gnome.co.uk>
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I've just been trying the new Netscape 4 for FreeBSD on my 2.2-stable machine 
and
got the following error in the log file.

Aug  7 09:41:53 hawk syslogd: /dev/console: Too many open files in system: Too 
many open files in system
Aug  7 09:41:53 hawk syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system
Aug  7 09:41:53 hawk syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system
Aug  7 09:41:53 hawk /kernel: file: table is full

I have the following options set in the kernel

options         "CHILD_MAX=512"
options         "OPEN_MAX=512"


Its a pretty nasty error as the hard disk sounds like someone got into the
system  and started doing an rm -r /. This fear is reinforced when you can't 
run
any more processes to find out what is going on. All you can do is hit the
reset button and wait to see whats left of your OS. When you find its still
there you go and close the curtains and have a lie down :-)


Chris