From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 27 15:07:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18799 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:07:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18790 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:07:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA03000; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 22:59:52 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199802272259.WAA03000@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Andrew Stevens cc: Brian Somers , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Got a minute? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Feb 1998 21:18:49 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 22:59:52 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [sorry for the time-lapse] > > Regarding the select() error, I'm not sure where this is coming from. > What > > does ``pstat -T'' say when (or just before) you get the error ? Perhaps > > you're running out of system-wide open files ? > > Here's what pstat -T returned right now; my modem dropped the connection > about 15 minutes ago: > > 66/360 files > 429 vnodes > 3M/26M swap space This should be fixed with the latest ppp on http://www.FreeBSD.org/~brian There was a window where the modem could be closed after the descriptor was added to an `fd_set' and before it was selected on. I'm afraid I'm still clueless as to why your modem doesn't respond in term mode though :-( > Andrew Stevens. -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message