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Date:      Wed, 02 Sep 1998 20:46:15 PDT
From:      "HW Wong" <tkined@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Out of Swap Space
Message-ID:  <19980903034621.28497.qmail@hotmail.com>

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I planned to run 1000 processes. I have modified the maxusers to 100 and 
run the 1000 processes. After finished running 1000, the server hang and 
error message:"out of swap space" and "out of memory"

Any workaround. 

>Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 10:08:56 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Bob K <melange@yip.org>
>To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>cc: Sean Lerner <sean@yip.org>, Milky Puppy <milky@yip.org>
>Subject: Worrisome kernel messages
>
>I woke up this morning to the following section in the output of the 
daily
>script:
>
>pi kernel log messages:
>> system full
>> file: table is full
>> file: table is full
>[repeat 50 times]
>
>Looking in /var/log/messages:
>
>Sep  1 22:18:06 pi syslogd: /dev/console: Too many open files in 
system:
>Too many open files in system
>Sep  1 22:18:06 pi syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in 
system
>Sep  1 22:18:06 pi syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in 
system
>Sep  1 22:18:06 pi /kernel: file: table is full
>Sep  1 22:18:06 pi syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in 
system
>Sep  1 22:18:06 pi last message repeated 3 times
>Sep  1 22:18:06 pi /kernel: file: table is full
>[repeat above 3 lines about 20 times]
>Sep  1 22:18:06 pi syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in 
system
>Sep  1 22:18:06 pi last message repeated 3 times
>Sep  1 22:18:06 pi /kernel: file: table is full
>Sep  1 22:18:07 pi last message repeated 36 times
>Sep  1 22:18:06 pi sendmail[13921]: WAA13918: SYSERR(UID0): queueup:
>cannot create queue temp file tfWAA13918, uid=0: Bad file descriptor
>
>The system is running fine at the moment.  I've never seen the message
>"file: table is full", and don't really know how I can fix it.  Anyone
>have any idea as to what I can do about it?  This is an old -STABLE
>snapshot, no X, acts as a light-usage web/mail/shell server (yip.org &
>infiltration.org, for those that care).
>
>FreeBSD pi.yip.org 2.2-971207-SNAP FreeBSD 2.2-971207-SNAP #0: Mon Mar 
23
>15:42:32 EST 1998     melange@pi.yip.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/PI  i386
>
>(the kernel's had a few security patches applied)
>
>Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>/dev/wd0a       31775    16356    12877    56%    /
>/dev/wd0s1f    801639   628076   109432    85%    /usr
>/dev/wd0s1e    118959     8744   100699     8%    /var
>procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc
>
>If people want more info, or if they think I should direct this to
>freebsd-stable, just let me know.
>
>melange@yip.org - "Slightly tacky but completely entertaining"
>
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