Date: Sat, 09 Aug 1997 12:03:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> To: Chris Stenton <jacs@gnome.co.uk> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /kernel: file: table is full Message-ID: <XFMail.970809120351.conrads@neosoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199708070929.KAA00638@hawk.gnome.co.uk>
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Have you tried increasing maxusers? On 07-Aug-97 Chris Stenton wrote: > >I've just been trying the new Netscape 4 for FreeBSD on my 2.2-stable >machine >and >got the following error in the log file. > >Aug 7 09:41:53 hawk syslogd: /dev/console: Too many open files in system: >Too >many open files in system >Aug 7 09:41:53 hawk syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system >Aug 7 09:41:53 hawk syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system >Aug 7 09:41:53 hawk /kernel: file: table is full > >I have the following options set in the kernel > >options "CHILD_MAX=512" >options "OPEN_MAX=512" > > >Its a pretty nasty error as the hard disk sounds like someone got into the >system and started doing an rm -r /. This fear is reinforced when you >can't >run >any more processes to find out what is going on. All you can do is hit the >reset button and wait to see whats left of your OS. When you find its >still >there you go and close the curtains and have a lie down :-) > > >Chris -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/
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