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Date:      Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:52:14 -0400
From:      Robert Watson <robert@fledge.watson.org>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   File Table full
Message-ID:  <335CD09E.ADE05CAC@fledge.watson.org>

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Yesterday afternoon, I got this kernerl message/etc in my messages:

Apr 21 12:08:56 fledge syslogd: /dev/console: Too many open files in
system: Too
 many open files in system
Apr 21 12:08:56 fledge /kernel: file: table is full
Apr 21 12:09:18 fledge last message repeated 3 times
Apr 21 12:10:31 fledge last message repeated 3 times
Apr 21 12:16:55 fledge su: robert to root on /dev/ttyp2

I currently have maxusers=128 in my kernel config -- can I explicitely
increase file handles on the system, or should I just increase maxusers?
Does maxusers change the file descriptor table size?


--
Robert Watson
robert@fledge.watson.org, rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu



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