From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 18 11:33:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA20202 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:33:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA20167 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:33:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA13823; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:30:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:30:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Lachlan O'Dea" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Too many open files in system In-Reply-To: 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 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