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To: "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: Re: meaning of "file: table is full" kernel log messages?
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 07 Nov 1998 13:20:50 PST."
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From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> My daily security check email noted some kernel log entries that I didn't
> recognize:
>
> smarter kernel log messages:
> > file: table is full
> <message repeats MANY times>
You probably want to rebuild your kernel with maxusers set much higher
(what's it currently set to - 10?)
> Checking dmesg, I noted that the next message indicated that a process
> segfaulted, but as there's no date stamps, I don't know if it happened
> immediately afterward.
That'll be in the messages file as well.
> I'm running -CURRENT with the kernel built Oct 13 (I'd be more current,
> but the new bootloader causes my machine to lock up... any fix for this
> yet?)
No idea; what's the problem?
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