From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 9:56:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c004.sfo.cp.net (c004-h009.c004.sfo.cp.net [209.228.14.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14D7537BFA0 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:56:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rick@geckobot.com) Received: (cpmta 15333 invoked from network); 6 Apr 2000 09:56:11 -0700 Received: from unknown (HELO patches) (209.24.34.128) by smtp.geckobot.com with SMTP; 6 Apr 2000 09:56:11 -0700 X-Sent: 6 Apr 2000 16:56:11 GMT Message-ID: <004701bf9fe8$a3bced40$fd64a8c0@patches> From: "Rick Moore" To: Cc: References: <002101bf9fe0$c833ec80$fd64a8c0@patches> <20000406121103.B4198@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: File Handle Troubles Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:53:24 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christ- I was just struggling to find the fstat command. Thanks so much-- you have enabled me to save my server before it crashes again. :) Rick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "Rick Moore" Cc: Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 9:11 AM Subject: Re: File Handle Troubles > On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 08:57:01AM -0700, Rick Moore wrote: > > Hi-- I apologize if this is well known. I couldn't find the answers in the > > documentation. > > > > I have a server which is running out of file handles. Can someone tell me > > what command(s) to use to figure out where the file handle leak is? > > man fstat > > > Also, I have another server which needs more file handles (no leaks on this > > one, though). I didn't see any kernel options to bump it up for the entire > > system. Did I miss something? Is there someplace to set this? > > IIRC, that's one of the things 'maxusers' controls, but double-check > the docs and param.c before you believe me on that. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message