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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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