From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 4 16:43:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E90B114BF8 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 16:43:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA11255; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 19:43:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 19:43:02 -0500 (EST) From: Adam To: Joss Roots Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /kernel : file : Table is full ERROR In-Reply-To: <20000104234731.21914.qmail@web123.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I suggest you increase the number of MAXUSERS in your kernel config file if you are using a custom kernel, to say 40 or 80ish. This is a more permanent solution. As a temporary (you need to do it each boot but is equally as effective) sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=abiggernumber. do sysctl kern.maxfiles to see what it currently is, this is the maximum number of files that can be open at once. On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Joss Roots wrote: >hi there, >I noticed the last couple of days, during which >I upgraded from source to 3.4-RELEASE, >I ma getting /kernel : file : Table is full >error when syslog is started at 2:00 am from >crontab, what is this error and how to remedy. > >thanks. > > >===== >MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU. >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. >http://messenger.yahoo.com > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message