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Date:      Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:30:54 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Lachlan O'Dea" <lodea@angmar.mel.cybec.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Too many open files in system
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980218113035.13769K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980218130338.7916A-100000@angmar.mel.cybec.com.au>

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On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Lachlan O'Dea wrote:

> Can anyone tell me what these (apparently related) messages mean, or where
> I should look to find out? 
> 
> > Feb 17 15:55:33 angmar syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in
> system
> > Feb 17 15:55:33 angmar /kernel: file: table is full
> 
> I got a whole heap of these just after bringing the system back up, but
> they stopped appearing after a minute or so. The system had been down for
> about two hours and majordomo seemed to be doing a lot of work...
> 
> Has this got anything to do with the openfiles capability in login.conf?

No; this is the system hard limit.

Try increasing maxusers and rebuilding the kernel.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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