From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 21 9: 1:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from absinthe2.dyndns.org (adsl-63-192-101-92.dsl.chic01.pacbell.net [63.192.101.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0070C37B43F for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 09:01:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from fred@localhost) by absinthe2.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA34360; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 09:01:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fred) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 09:01:30 -0700 From: Fred Condo To: Jonathan Defries Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Too many open files Message-ID: <20000821090130.A33288@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> Mail-Followup-To: Jonathan Defries , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jonathan@corpex.com on Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:36:52PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:36:52PM +0100, Jonathan Defries wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to run a caching nameserver on one of my web servers > and it keeps complaining: > > socket(SOCK_DGRAM): Too many open files > > I have 4 servers with identical hardware, all running 3.5-STABLE > with the same sort of loads on each, but this is the only one it > is happening on. > > What's the best thing to do to try and alleviate this? I have > maxusers set at 256, I've seen mention of a new kernel with a > couple of extra options, would this be the way to go? > > - Jonathan > > This should probably be on -questions, but... it may be that your process is running out of open files, not your kernel. See man ulimit or man login.conf. -- Fred Condo + fred@condo.chico.ca.us Not since Tom Hanks won an Oscar has there been that much acting in Philadelphia. -- Sen. Joe Lieberman, about the Republican Convention. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message