From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 9 10:07:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA02434 for stable-outgoing; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 10:07:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com (as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com [206.27.167.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA02426 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 10:07:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id MAA02489; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 12:03:56 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199708070929.KAA00638@hawk.gnome.co.uk> Date: Sat, 09 Aug 1997 12:03:51 -0500 (CDT) Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. From: Conrad Sabatier To: Chris Stenton Subject: Re: /kernel: file: table is full Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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/