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Subject: file table is full - but not...?
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received the following from a logcheck;

Unusual System Events
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Jul 24 23:11:50 web1 /kernel: le: table is full
Jul 24 23:11:50 web1 /kernel: file: table is full
Jul 24 23:14:00 web1 /kernel: le: table is full
Jul 24 23:14:00 web1 /kernel: file: table is full
Jul 24 23:14:00 web1 /kernel: pid 94326 (cron), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core
dumped)
Jul 24 23:14:07 web1 /kernel: file: table is full
Jul 24 23:14:07 web1 /kernel: pid 93772 (httpd), uid 65534: exited on signal 11
Jul 24 23:14:07 web1 /kernel: file: table is full

in a bit of a panic I logged into the server and checked the file table

> df -ki
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity iused   ifree  %iused  Mounted
on
/dev/ad0s1a     99183    35681    55568    39%    1401   23685     6%   /
/dev/ad0s1f  55177478  5942572 44820708    12%  271618 13521148     2%   /usr
/dev/ad0s1e     19815      507    17723     3%     148    4906     3%   /var
/dev/ad1s1e  56824822  6443295 45835542    12%    2033 14203405     0%   /backup
procfs              4        4        0   100%     276     768    26%   /proc

while that was about 35 min after the incident, nothing should be even close to
maxing out and causing that error...  any ideas?

Dave