Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:32:19 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Craig Burgess <craig-burgess@home.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dmesg/security check output wierdness Message-ID: <20010121223219.I10761@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> In-Reply-To: <GHEGJJOKGFNJDIHBHOIDGELECEAA.craig-burgess@home.net>; from craig-burgess@home.net on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 09:20:09PM -0800 References: <20010121143324.U10761@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> <GHEGJJOKGFNJDIHBHOIDGELECEAA.craig-burgess@home.net>
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 09:20:09PM -0800, Craig Burgess wrote: > This is a bit different but from what you have written, This really has nothing to do with this thread. > may I assume that > the msg poses (below) no threat? It's the first I've seen it and it appeared > on first boot after kernel build (following CVSUP for ports & source and > make world) > > >>Jan 21 20:25:51 Felix /kernel: file: table is full > > or is this another matter entirely? Not a good thing. > If I need to do something about it, > what? First figure out if something is broken. Check fstat(1) for a process opening more files than it should. If OTOH, this is part of the systems normal operations, try uping 'maxusers' in the kernel config. See the maillogs and other references on how high to go. > One strangeness was that the machine "spontaneously" denied permission > to ping even localhost until i had rebuilt the kernel, even though it worked > for about 8 hours after 'make installworld' but running on the "old" kernel > (4.1.1) - no reboot following installworld. Weird breakage with the kernel and userland out of sync? Not surprising. > Here's what I'm running now: > > FreeBSD Felix 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #8: Sun Jan 21 17:57:41 PST 2001 > craig@Felix:/usr/src/sys/compile/FELIX alpha > > mostly the machine is a very large and underworked natd/firewall which seems > to be running okay. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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